Abstract Gestural Paintings by TheAmyCo

Long before I had words for it, I felt electronic music at a level I have never quite been able to explain — not something I listened to so much as something that moved through me, below thought, almost sensory. Words have always felt like a second language; my first is colour, gesture and sound.

My practice begins there...

In permeability, a state which I have spent years practicing and subsequently teaching through yoga, breathwork and sound, where breath, frequency and emotion are allowed to move through the body before the mind can edit them. Over time I came to understand that painting was not separate from this work but another form of it. The same act of staying open, made visible. Teaching the body to receive, letting sound reorganise what is held, putting down a mark before thought arrives, these are one practice expressed three ways.

Painting is where that openness leaves a trace.

Working intuitively, often quickly, I let a sensation pass through me and meet the surface in a single, irreversible mark. Watered pigment soaks into the paper or the wall rather than sitting on top of it; electric neons are held in tension by quieter, bruised tones. Nothing is depicted. Each work re-stages a moment as pure colour and movement; an arrested gesture, the split second in which a feeling becomes physical and is fixed before it can pass.

I am less interested in being understood than in being felt. The work asks to register in the body first the way a frequency, or a held breath does, before any meaning is named.

What remains is ephemeral by nature but enduring in its resonance: a record of a moment already gone, still vibrating on the surface.

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