Meet Weird Amy

Hi!

I'm Amy.

Weird Amy.

I live in East Tennessee with my husband, four dogs, and three cats.

I have a boring day job, just like the next person, I suppose...

But in my off hours, I come alive with creativity!

I make eccentric art for unique people.

All my life, I've been drawn to things...well...things nobody else would like...at least, that's what I thought at the time. 

 I like the obscure, the beat up and well used, the hideous 70s styles that only the owner of an avocado colored refrigerator could love.  Oh sure, these things might be in style again now, but trust me, not when I started loving them.  

I grew up very poor in the middle of nowhere in Ohio...in a house with no running water and a wood burning stove as the only heat source.  We had a lot of chickens...but not much else.  We lacked a lot in money...and in many other things.  But what this lack of creature comforts gave me was something so valuable.

  I hold to the fact that having an "artist's eye" is nothing more than finding beauty where someone else might not see it...and I think that's what my childhood gave me (that, and the inability to eat an egg without gagging). 

I've been a crafty person as far back as I can remember, but it wasn't until I was in my late 20s that I came to painting.  I've crocheted and sewed, played with clay and made stuffed animals...and had honestly done just about every crafty thing a body can do...but drawing and painting...those came later in life.

It might have been slow in coming, but when I finally got to it...POW!  

I found something that makes my heart sing!  

And not only that!  I also found that I wasn't the only person who loved what I love!  After years of feeling like the lone weirdo, I found out that other people were weird too!

Frida Kahlo said: 

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.  I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there somewhere thinking of me, too."

Art helped me to find the bizarre and flawed individuals in the world...those amazing, amazing weird folks.

I love to make art, and I would make art even if I was the last person alive and there wasn't even a single person left to see my paintings.  

But I do hope that people will see my art and say there is beauty in it.

Even more than that, I hope that someone will see my art and say 'I am not alone anymore'.

Misery loves company, but so does happiness...

and so do us weirdos.