Amber Bryans

Amber Bryans

Canadian artist working in painting and printmaking.

photo by Nicole Marie Photography

email: amberbryansfineartist@gmail.com

instagram: @_amberbryans

Select works available on Etsy shop PaintAndLine ; for commissions and other inquiries please contact me.

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🌙Now complete And it GLOWS ✨ “Luminous Si

🌙Now complete

And it GLOWS ✨

“Luminous Silence”
36x24” Acrylic on Canvas
Available for purchase

#acryliclandscape #landscapepainting #naturepainting #canadianpainter #canadianartist #saskatoon #yxe #originalart

☀️ Well what a gorgeous day out at our friends

☀️ Well what a gorgeous day out at our friends’ farm!

🛻 The boy got to drive around, hold chicks, muck out a coop, feed horses, watch cattle loading, and spend time with friends.

🐓 Honestly I think he would just carry these chickens around all the time every day if he could. 🥰

🙌 We didn’t cancel his homeschool lessons today, these are the lessons. And honestly it was a super experience for me too. A meaningful in breath under those open skies. ⛅️

🥰 Wishing you a great day wherever you find yourself! May you have a space for breathing in in the midst of all you give out.

❤️Amber

🌝Yesterday was a lot, today was calmer. All of

🌝Yesterday was a lot, today was calmer. All of us slightly overtired from last night’s adventures but feeling content and happy, if not slightly foggy.

🪶✨Still have prints available of the lovely house sparrow. Not the most popular of birds on this continent but pretty much any feathered visitor in our backyard brings us joy. 🥰

House Sparrow
Hand Carved/Printed
Releif print on 8x6” Strathmore Mixed Media Paper
$22 CAD

#linocut #releifprint #printmaking #housesparrow #birdartwork #birder

☺️Still not done, but feeling proud of how thi

☺️Still not done, but feeling proud of how this 2x3 foot painting is coming along. This lighting does not capture the colours correctly, nor is the grass the right vibe, but I had to share this bit of winter that is hanging on ❄️

👌The colours are gorgeous and I am so proud of my work today between studio time and helping my kids thin my plants <ahem> I mean sell Day Lillies… 😆

Included feet for scale 🦶

🤩Anyone else going out to see the blood moon tonight? I am keeping the kids up late to go see but I think I might regret it tomorrow 🫣. Such are the things that priceless family memories are made of… right?

…Right?

😬

Update: it all went fine. The kids were marvellous. They had a great time. We went out of the city by a pond and watched the moon and listened to the birds. Next morning was excellent too. Sometimes my concerns are valid, but often just pointless worry. everyone was thankful for the outing. ☺️

#landscapepainting #acrylicpainting
#sleepdeprivedchildren #saskatoonartist #canadianpainter
#artistmother

🍃“…It is my contention that in order to kee

🍃“…It is my contention that in order to keep a Muse, you must offer it food… in a lifetime we stuff ourselves with sounds, sights, smells, tastes, and textures of people, animals, landscapes, events, large and small. We stuff ourselves with these impressions and experiences and our reaction to them. Into our subconscious go not only factual data but reactive data, our movement toward or away from the sensed events.

These are the stuffs, the foods, on which the Muse grows.”

📖“How to Keep and Feed a Muse”
From the book “Zen in the Art of Writing” by Ray Bradbury

✨For over a year now I’ve been wanting to create a new mini block to create an open, varied edition of mini prints from all my scraps of lovely paper that come my way as I create larger prints. And the weirdest thing is that this simple little project had me hitting a creative blockage every time I approached it. Last night after printing another block, this little design just came to me. I think I’ve been feeding my Muse with all the adventures and visiting with loved ones the last few weeks!

I encourage you to read the complete essay belonging to above quote; Bradbury goes on to explain how our creativity/inspiration happens best when we pay less attention to it, acknowledging it’s presence but focusing past it to the wonderful experiences in our world.

Ah I’m not doing his writing or theory justice. Just go read the book. 😝

#blockprint #reductionprinting #artprocess #creativeprocess

👋Currently taking a pause from my art practice

👋Currently taking a pause from my art practice to spend time with family, engage in some self care and reassess direction with my art practice. Lots of creating has been happening these past few years and I’m hoping to take on the coming ones with increased intentionality and groundedness. 💙

In the meanwhile:

🖼This work evaded being photographed with the rest of the bunch from this series, so sharing now 🌝

“Moonrise I” 2021
9x6” Block print and watercolour on 12x9” paper $38 CAD

Also note: This will be available on Etsy, BUT I will be closing my shop as part of the strike/protest April 11-18. Even with some very successful recent years Etsy has been hiking fees for their shop owners. I will also be reassessing models for selling my art in the midst of reassessing my art practice direction. 😬

Appreciate the support I have found here! Thank you for following me and keeping things positive ☺️

#etsyshop #landscapepainting #printmaker #saskatchewanartist #mixedmedia

“In Passing,” meaning “fleetingly,” “tra

“In Passing,” meaning “fleetingly,” “transiently,” or “while thinking of something else.” When we journey through nature, often there are fleeting moments brought to our attention as a passing comment. We pass through the landscape and the scene speaks to us.

This is a series of six mixed media works created through combining block printing with watercolour. Each work is a complete original work, as the watercolour is unique for each. Together, they give the impression of changing skies as the viewer returns to the same location at different times.

Artwork measures 6x4”
Paper measures 8x6”

Printed on 90 g watercolour paper

#blockprinting #watercolour #watercolorlandscape #mixedmedia #canadianart

😶update on this block 🌲Last year when I was

😶update on this block

🌲Last year when I was working on these “Treeline” prints I had mentioned that in the new year I would return and release an edition of prints using this block, sans watercolour. ✨

👉Not sure if any of you out there have been waiting on that promise, but I want to say:

many
attempts
have
been
made.

😭I’ve been having a lot of technical problems to sort out that you probably don’t want to hear about- with the block, with ink, with the paper, registration… pretty much every part of the process. I think I might have it sorted out and will try again after my next trip to the art supply store. If not, I might just carve the another scene in this style and have a fresh go.

🤷‍♀️Admittedly, I’ve been alternating between this project and other things on the go- for the sake of keeping myself from getting so frustrated to give up on printmaking, and my sanity, entirely.😐

👀In the meanwhile, this and a few others from this mixed media set are still available on my Etsy shop, PaintAndLine. 🙂

“Overcast”
Approximately 9x6” block print and watercolour on 12x9” watercolour paper

#blockprinting #watercolour #forestscenery #forestart

✨Sometimes the little things are the best.✨

✨Sometimes the little things are the best.✨

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