Amanda Meares is a British born artist who lives and works between her home studio on the shores of Blackwattle Bay in Sydney and the lush landscape of the Northern Rivers, NSW.

Art has always been central to her life. Raised among working artists, with a silversmith for a mother and her stepmother a renowned printmaker, she grew up surrounded by making, material, and process. The influence of her psychiatrist father helped foster a deep engagement with and respect for the inner world.

Amanda’s paintings unfold as reflections of memory, moving between past and present, the conscious and the imagined. She describes her practice as an ongoing conversation with the self. Working predominantly in oils, she builds layered compositions where figures, colour and pattern intertwine. Her work carries a strong sense of emotion and spontaneity. Drawn to the rhythmic patterns of Paul Klee and the emotional resonance of Mark Rothko her practice sits between structure, intuition, abstraction and figuration.

Her work is held in private collections around Australia and Internationally. She accepts commissions and collaborations.