My career as a professional artist began in Chicago in 1990, my works span the last 18 years...Thank you for taking the time to explore them.
My early works were created at our home on West Cullom Street in the Old Irving Park neighborhood in Chicago, near Montrose and Elston...
People could see my studio lights from the street...and as you walked toward my windows you could see my art in the window facing east in the direction of Western Ave...
I would ride the bus and walk everywhere so I could learn the progression of the streets and I always had a portfolio and/or a sketch pad with me when I was by myself...when I had my son with me, he was always my focus...as those of you who knew me remember.
I would walk to the Butera up on Elston...they had a great produce department...and it was a great neighborhood store...in a real neighborhood made up of families and their history I am proud to recognize as a home very close to my heart.
I moved to the Atlanta area in 1995 after my husband, Buddy, died suddenly and unexpectedly...
Chicago just wasn't the same for me...and I wanted to find a place where I could create memories for our son, at a pace I could handle at that moment in my life...and I found a place called west Georgia...
I spent most of the last 13 years there, working very hard creating atmospheres in peoples homes...like I have always said...we make your place, your space...
I have created quite a bit over the last 13 years for my private clients locally...
...more of my work locally is recognized in custom interior design...and that's ok...because I never stopped being an artist...
By doing interiors I just changed my focus for a while...and in doing so found a deeper direction to take my fine art in.
You are beginning to experience that direction as I begin to show the works I have kept inside for the last 13 years.
I am now facing the longterm challenges of several work related injuries and the hardship my body has faced by spending the better part of the last 18 years clinbing ladders as an income source...I am grateful for every moment of what I have accomplished through my work, however my body can no longer be pushed to the level a professional interior design artist must achieve to be successful and profitable...and that reality is a hard reality for me, a very independant woman, to face.
My focus is once again, my fine art.
Thank you for exploring my works...
and for those of you who wish to collect them...
...Thank you for supporting both my works and the causes I believe in supporting to make a difference for people they are working to help by easing the challenges they are facing in every moment by walking their paths...
I value you all....PennDragon, (Amy Stewart Hale, PennDragon Studios)
