Amelia Shipman
Do you remember yourself as a child? Would you twist and turn around every corner, or were you the one who’d rather sit and daydream? Amelia’s work seems to explore that world but is doused by reality. Maybe once you twisted and turned throughout a wide-open playground, now you twist and turn around the daily grind of the human condition. What carries you through?
“Art Candy for the Dysfunctional Soul” she calls it. Exploring vibrant colors that express an almost bubbly child-like quality. But that’s not all there is to this work. It’s also rich. It’s animalistic. It explores what it’s like to grow.
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Amelia Shipman began painting at the age of fourteen, and met with success, her journey had just begun. Though like many of us, her work was halted. Meaning her passion was halted. Her success was shortly met with an allergic condition that prevented her from pursuing what she felt to be her calling. Though like her work, she always came back to exploring what it’s like to grow.
Amelia describes her creations as being among the likes of unique mixes of abstract, surrealistic, and pop art. Being that of deep personal symbolism with child-like wonder. Why do the simplest even aloof things tend to have the deepest of meanings? A type of untouchable purity, yet it’s so fleeting. One wrong twist, one wrong turn and we’re transforming our growth once again.
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