Amy Boteler was born in Northern Virginia in 2005. As a young girl, she was fascinated with making art after she saw a sunset driving home from her grandmother’s home.

Ever since then her love of art has flourished. She studied art throughout high school and is currently studying graphic design in college. Amy’s favorite past time is visiting art museums to study the works of great artists.

Amy enjoys painting, sketching from life, drawing the figure, and practicing her adobe skills.

Artist Statement

How often do you see something spectacularly beautiful? And then, try to capture its fleetingness? These are the questions that drive my soul’s obligation to create. My life consists of experiencing seemingly mundane moments of  human existence that we become accustomed to like riding the train, shopping at the grocery store, even walking with family. That is until you understand the beauty with which God made our world. How beautiful it is to see a person reading, the light bouncing off their face, the tree leaves swaying in the wind, and the impact of the book visual on their face. Through these supposedly ordinary moments is where I become filled with the need to create. My work is fulfilled in stealing these seconds of life and pouring them into paintings, sketches, and drawings for people to understand that life cannot be ugly. 

My works start out with these moments of inspiration from life around me. My purse carries a mini sketchbook for capturing life in the moment and my phone for photos that I will come back to when I am in a rush and cannot draw at that second. When I get home, I take my sketches and photos and use it to develop a painting with acrylic, oil, or watercolors. The style of my painting pulls from impressionism with a great dash of realism. Impressionism and its artists have greatly inspired me in how I paint. I am also inspired by the beauty of my religion, Catholicism. All in all, I must say that G. K. Chestonsho says it best, “Art is the signature of man.”