Amy E’toile Skinner
Lives and Makes art in Pine Mountain, GA

possumtrot5062@gmail.com
BFA Agnes Scott College (GA)
- Studied under ceramicist Steven Forbes-de Soule
Member of Columbus Artist Guild (GA)
Member of Visual Artists Alliance of LaGrange (GA)

There is something about the rich, warm browns, reds, and yellows of soil striations and the feel of the earth under our feet that connects us to our ancestors. Finding an arrowhead or an ancient pottery shard after rain brings a mysterious past forward and makes it a reality. The simplicity of ancient communicative lines and shapes has always fascinated me. Not just the gracefulness of marks, but the meaning of the communication behind them.

Originally, I studied primitive shapes as I hand-built ceramic vessels. Firing techniques included prehistoric Pit and Sagar firing. Currently, I work in two mediums. I use watercolor as I continue to explore line, shape, texture, and color. I also finger paint with a water-soluble oil. A discovery in Spain dated the earliest cave painting to over 64,000 years old. Our ancestors used pigments and hands to create visuals for their stories. Now, thousands of years later, it is still being done.

My art has two meanings, the one I hope to convey to the viewer, and the meaning that only the viewer personally interprets and understands.

Art comes from an ancient place. The urge to communicate through visual art is in our DNA.