Amy Pleasant is a Pacific Northwest painter, her figurative and botanical paintings are known for their color saturated palette and a leaning towards abstract expressionism. After spending several years in the field of education as a general education and secondary teacher, she returned to art school to study design at the Art Institute of Seattle and then attended the Drawing and Painting Atelier at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. Amy has participated in national exhibitions in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, as well as having solo exhibitions in Seattle, WA, Dallas, TX, Canton,OH and Amsterdam, NL. In 2014 she was one of twelve artists featured nationally by the Woman's Caucus for the Arts and was a recipient of an Artist Trust Gap grant in 2015. Most recently, she has shown in the San Juan Islands Museum of Art, (WA) Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (WA) and just closed a 78 painting exhibition, Family Album at the Canton Museum of Art. (OH) She has been awarded the Bloedel Reserve Community Creative Residency for 2024. (WA) Her work can be found in corporate and personal collections throughout the West, midwest and the Netherlands.
