Amy Twomey is a Texas-based painter whose work explores storytelling, memory, and place through layered, intuitive mark-making. Working primarily with paint, she builds surfaces slowly and deliberately, allowing symbols, textures, and forms to emerge through repetition and revision. Her paintings often suggest elements of landscape, icons and personal narrative while remaining open to interpretation.

 

Twomey’s practice is deeply process-driven. Rather than working toward a predetermined image, she allows each painting to unfold organically, responding to what is already present on the surface. Imperfection, erasure, and quiet shifts in direction play an essential role in the work, creating paintings that reflect the passage of time and accumulation of experience.

 

Influenced by the icons of West Texas and the Southwest and the emotional pull of lived experience, Twomey’s work balances intuition with restraint. The resulting paintings invite viewers to slow down, engage, and bring their own associations to the work rather than seeking fixed meaning. Amy's work has been described as contemporary spiritual folk art.

 

Amy Twomey lives and works in Texas.