HAMPSHIRE ARTS

Amy Goodman is a Sculptor and Portrait artist renowned for her Equestrian work.

Amy returned to the UK last March after a spell living and working in SW France.
As well from her dynamic, life-size welded steel sculptures which are one of her trademarks, she adores creating wild-life sculptures in bronze, as well as making Portrait Busts of Sporting Legends such as Racing Driver Graham Hill, and more recently depicting ‘Manchester United’ players in welded-steel.

Sculpture is not her only passion. Her drawings and paintings really capture the character and movement of her subject matter. Her black and white Equestrian works are very much in demand both in the UK and Europe, reaching as far as Kuwait and the U.A.E. She has also received commissions from the USA.

“Although I work in different media, my main focus is the desire to capture the movement and real character of the subject matter.
I initially discovered welding when completing my foundation course in Fine Art back in 1994. I love the challenge and physicality of creating large scale pieces, and working with steel rod has become a technique and medium I have honed over the last decade or so.
I believe it is a three-dimensional extension of drawing (preparatory drawing being an essential element in creating sculpture too), and is a fantastic way to interpret the lines of the animal and human forms I am representing. I look at the skeletal and muscular anatomy and then intuitively let the lines of steel flow, echoing each other in a fluid, dynamic way.
No two of my pieces are ever the same. I like each sculpture and drawing to have its own identity.”

Solo Exhibitions

2005
‘Haras National’, Villeneuve (one of the National Studs of France)
2004
‘Amy à Eymet’, Café des Arts, Eymet, France
2001
‘Menagerie’, Saray Gallery, St. James’s, London
2000
Napier Gallery, St. Helier, Jersey
1998
‘Horses in Space’, St. Thomas Centre (The Hampshire Sculpture Trust), Winchester

‘Draught Horse’ Placed exhibit at Beale Park, Pangbourne. Later purchased by The Southampton Institute and unveiled by H.M Princess Anne

Group Exhibitions

2009
‘The Affordable Art Fair’, Battersea Park, London
‘Society of Equestrian Artists’ exhibition at Palace House, Newmarket
2008
‘The Windsor Contemporary Art Fair’, Windso'
‘Only Dogs and Horses’, The Iona House Gallery, Woodstock
2007-2008
‘Cavalcade I & II’’, The Figura Gallery, Windsor
2006
‘Society of Equestrian Artists’ annual exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London'
The Horse in Art 2006’, Obsidian Art, Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire
‘The Horses are Coming…’ hotart, 2 Minshull Street, Knutsford
2002-2008
‘British Studio Arts’, Kuwait City, Kuwait
2004-2006
Works at Sausmarez Manor Art Park, Guernsey and Newnham Paddox Art Park
2002
‘Muses’, the Harrodian School, Barnes
2001
‘Art on Show’, Gallery 28, Cork Street, London
‘Best Living’, the Air Gallery, Dover Street, London Belvoir Castle, Nottingham
1999-2000
‘The Garden Gallery’, Broughton
‘The Henley Festival’, Henley-upon-Thames
1998
‘Horse’, the Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Glos
1997
The ‘On-Line Gallery’, Bedford Place, Southampton
‘Sculpture in the Garden’, Group Show at Deans Court, Wimborne, Dorset (Curated by Lynn Green, editor of the ‘Contemporary Art Magazine’)

See gallery HERE and Amy's painting's HERE

website can be seen at www.amygoodman.co.uk