Amelia Layton

   Various Sizes, Watercolor on Paper, 2018-2025

This work is a continual exploration of memory. What makes us human and what makes a life? How does life create form, or how does form create experience?

I am for clumsy art, falling down stairs and stubbing its toes on corners and chairs. 

I am for the art the moment a laugh becomes hysterics, the second you lose control when up and down are lost.

 Artist Bio

Born 1983, Seattle WA. Currently living and working in Olympia. 

I chose to attend the San Francisco Art Institute for my MFA because my aunt was battling lung cancer in Santa Cruz, and I wanted to be closer to her. She passed away the day I registered for classes. 

I can’t express how this experience changed me as an artist, but helping someone through hospice care changed my perspective in a profound and lasting way. 

My work has always been about anxiety and loss, but this pushed a 

transition into pure abstraction. 

I continue to meditate through process and repetition in painting.