Amy Grantham

Born United States

Amy Grantham lives in New York City devoting many hours each day to her art practice which includes varying media such as large scale pastels with collage elements, gouache on objects and boxes, monoprints in ink and charcoal drawings. Amy is also a fine art photographer with her work represented in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Amy’s process has an intuitive element where the outlines of shapes flow from her hand in parallel to the forms she sees whilst listening to music. Over the years Amy has built her visual language and mastered the difficulties of balance in her compositions. Other series of works are more immediate such as the monoprints that began in lockdown.

“During lockdown in NYC, as our external lives became smaller I made a point to tap into and grow my internal world as much as possible to stay afloat through whatever it was that might come. I felt a pull towards making monotypes, and so I began with a smearing of black paint on a piece of glass I had lying around in my studio. I pressed a piece of paper onto the glass, removed it slowly, and was met with various splotches of paint on the paper which I then began to fill in as images came to mind around them. Through random bits of paint a universe opened itself up to me and I captured the visions as they appeared, never questioning, only accepting.”

In 2024 Amy had her first international exhibition in England where she presented to a new audience the work she had completed over the last few years which she refers to as, ‘transcriptions of sound.’ Her often large scale pastel compositions are the visual projections of the shapes and colours she sees while listening to classical music, favouring Bach interpreted by Glenn Gould.

“Music and art have long shared a kindred spark. An artist can compose colour, shape, and form by building upon feelings and structure, in much the same way that a musician adds notes and instrumentation to their work to build sound into feelings. Many an artist has been moved to explore, and pay homage, to the sensations which arise when certain musical works are heard, or rather, felt. Thus, sound gives way to vision, and a visual manifestation of the emotions experienced by the artist are projected outward via their chosen medium.”

In September 2025 Amy will have her first solo show in her home town of New York City at the prestigious Findlay Gallery

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Selected Exhibitions
2025 Solo show at Findlay Galleries, New York City
2025 Tranceducers: Art of Visionaries, Mediums and Automatists, GPS Gallery, London
2024 Listen to What You See Solo show – Farley’s House and Gallery, Sussex