BIOGRAPHY

Amy Wynne is an artist currently living and working in a historic lace mill in New England. She holds an MFA in Classical Painting from The New York Academy of Art in New York City and a dual BA in Art History & Cultural Anthropology from Smith College.

Amy exhibits in galleries nationally and has work in private and corporate collections including Brown University, Fidelity Investments and Meditech Corporation. She has been awarded grants from The Rhode Island Cultural Council and a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. Her work is strongly influenced by her deep connection to the natural world, living in Southeast Asia, Surrealist Automatic Drawing and Ecofeminist philosophy. She is a long-time yoga practitioner, student of Tibetan Buddhism and certified meditation instructor.

She has been teaching painting and drawing for 25 years integrating mindfulness and creative practice. Formerly full time at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, she currently teaches workshops on-line, across New England and Tuscany. She received the 2015 CE Teacher of Excellence Award from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is an author of many popular on-line classes with LinkedInLearning and CreativeLive  which make creativity accessible to all.