Biography

Wanting to portray reality in an objective way is not a preferred choice, but for me a necessity. Realism serves the purpose of conveying the kind of emotions and expressions in people, and animals, that initially inspires me to paint.

Amanda Pinkerton was born on June 21st, 1959 in Fort Rucker, Alabama, the youngest of four girls to a Canadian Military Family. After moving back to Canada she spent most of her childhood in Kingston and then Burlington, Ontario where her family moved after her father retired from the army.

Getting her first inspiration for drawing from a father that loved cartooning, as far back as she remembers she always loved art and it came easily to her throughout school. Her interest only grew with intense high school and college art programs and inspiring and encouraging teachers. She graduated from the Fine Arts program at St. Lawrence College in Kingston in 1982 where the main focus in her art was nature and where horses in particular was the theme of a series of paintings in her final year of study.

With shows both in Kingston and Burlington after graduating Amanda made a shift in style and medium and concentrated on watercolours doing mostly houses and landscape commissions. Keeping busy doing animal and people portraits in pencil for many years, a return to painting was inevitable. The painting “Little Visitor” which was accepted into the American Academy of Equine Art Fall Juried Exhibition in 2005, marked her return to her first love of painting in oils, but also to her most favourite and enduring subject matter – horses.

2007 Honourable Mention "Gray On Gray", Horses In Art Cover Contest

2007 143rd Lansdowne Agricultural Fair, 1st Prize Oil Painting, 1st Prize Pastel, 2nd Prize Pencil Drawing, "Simply Pete" Oil Painting "Best In Show" Award

2006 Honourable Mention "Snow Beast", Horses In Art Cover Contest

2006 142nd Lansdowne Agricultural Fair, 1st Prize Oil Painting, 1st Prize Watercolour Painting, 1st Prize Pencil Drawing, 2nd Prize Pastel Painting, "Cairo" Pencil Drawing "Best In Show" Award