Amy Hoedemakers
Visual Artist
Oxford, Waitaha Canterbury
On the northern edge of the Canterbury Plains, you will find Amy Hoedemakers and her studio. Nestled in the natural landscape that provides much of the inspiration for her abstract landscape paintings, this established artist creates atmospheric paintings that allow the viewer to enter and wander within.
Her work is familiar to aspects of the New Zealand landscape, yet not entirely obvious to specific places. Capturing the dreamy, dramatic and mystical quality, that is the New Zealand landscape. The water appears translucent as though we can see through it to what lies beneath and what’s there is left to our imagination. We are compelled to look into the deep dark pools of her paintings and are drawn in towards luminous colour. We can see where she has scraped back the paint and applied more, creating exquisite, transparent layers. She allows the paint to run and yet there is no doubt that the runs are part of the landscape. Her paintings draw us in, inviting us to linger, leaving behind our busy lives for a moment. Amy’s painting's give us a glimpse into another world, a sanctuary, a place to rest.
“My painting is always evolving,” Amy says. “I think as you grow as a person your work changes too. It’s quite reflective in that aspect.”
Original Paintings by Amy Hoedemakers
‘Light Play’ Series 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5
Material: Oil and gold leaf on gesso board
Dimensions: 200mm (each painting)
Based in Oxford, North Canterbury, Amy Hoedemakers is a mixed media painter whose work explores abstraction through layered surfaces and material experimentation. Her compositions emerge through an intuitive process of building, obscuring, and revealing forms.
For the group exhibition Between Light and Line, I exhibit a series of oil paintings that explore a fluid, atmospheric world where colour, light, and texture dissolve into one another, like reflections on water.
I incorporate metallic leaf to introduce moments of luminosity - surfaces that catch and reflect light, echoing sunlight on water or fleeting glimmers beneath the surface.
Through these works, I invite contemplation, creating spaces that speak to sensation, memory, and atmosphere, and to the ever-changing nature of light and water.
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Original Painting by Amy Hoedemakers
‘Where Light Sleeps Beneath Water’
Material: Oil and silver leaf on gesso board
Dimensions: 600mm
Based in Oxford, North Canterbury, Amy Hoedemakers is a mixed media painter whose work explores abstraction through layered surfaces and material experimentation. Her compositions emerge through an intuitive process of building, obscuring, and revealing forms.
For the group exhibition Between Light and Line, I exhibit a series of oil paintings that explore a fluid, atmospheric world where colour, light, and texture dissolve into one another, like reflections on water.
I incorporate metallic leaf to introduce moments of luminosity - surfaces that catch and reflect light, echoing sunlight on water or fleeting glimmers beneath the surface.
Through these works, I invite contemplation, creating spaces that speak to sensation, memory, and atmosphere, and to the ever-changing nature of light and water.
Flexible Payment Options Available
For collectors who wish to spread their investment, personalised interest-free payment plans are available.
Original Paintings by Amy Hoedemakers
‘The River Remembers in Fragments‘
Sold individually or as a set of 4
Material: Oil and silver leaf on gesso board
Dimensions: 300× 230mm (each panel)
Based in Oxford, North Canterbury, Amy Hoedemakers is a mixed media painter whose work explores abstraction through layered surfaces and material experimentation. Her compositions emerge through an intuitive process of building, obscuring, and revealing forms.
For the group exhibition Between Light and Line, I exhibit a series of oil paintings that explore a fluid, atmospheric world where colour, light, and texture dissolve into one another, like reflections on water.
I incorporate metallic leaf to introduce moments of luminosity - surfaces that catch and reflect light, echoing sunlight on water or fleeting glimmers beneath the surface.
Through these works, I invite contemplation, creating spaces that speak to sensation, memory, and atmosphere, and to the ever-changing nature of light and water.
Flexible Payment Options Available
For collectors who wish to spread their investment, personalised interest-free payment plans are available.
Original Painting by Amy Hoedemakers
Ōtautahi, Christchurch
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 1010×1010mm
On the northern edge of the Canterbury Plains, you will find Amy Hoedemakers and her studio. Nestled in the natural landscape that provides much of the inspiration for her abstract landscape paintings, this established artist creates atmospheric paintings that allow the viewer to enter and wander within.
Her work is familiar to aspects of the New Zealand landscape, yet not entirely obvious to specific places. Capturing the dreamy, dramatic and mystical quality, that is the New Zealand landscape. The water appears translucent as though we can see through it to what lies beneath and what’s there is left to our imagination. We are compelled to look into the deep dark pools of her paintings and are drawn in towards luminous colour. We can see where she has scraped back the paint and applied more, creating exquisite, transparent layers. She allows the paint to run and yet there is no doubt that the runs are part of the landscape. Her paintings draw us in, inviting us to linger, leaving behind our busy lives for a moment. Amy’s painting's give us a glimpse into another world, a sanctuary, a place to rest.
“My painting is always evolving,” Amy says. “I think as you grow as a person your work changes too. It’s quite reflective in that aspect.”
Flexible Payment Options Available
For collectors who wish to spread their investment, personalised interest-free payment plans are available.
Original Painting by Amy Hoedemakers
Ōtautahi, Christchurch
Medium: Oil & silver leaf on gesso board
Dimensions: 600mm
On the northern edge of the Canterbury Plains, you will find Amy Hoedemakers and her studio. Nestled in the natural landscape that provides much of the inspiration for her abstract landscape paintings, this established artist creates atmospheric paintings that allow the viewer to enter and wander within.
Her work is familiar to aspects of the New Zealand landscape, yet not entirely obvious to specific places. Capturing the dreamy, dramatic and mystical quality, that is the New Zealand landscape. The water appears translucent as though we can see through it to what lies beneath and what’s there is left to our imagination. We are compelled to look into the deep dark pools of her paintings and are drawn in towards luminous colour. We can see where she has scraped back the paint and applied more, creating exquisite, transparent layers. She allows the paint to run and yet there is no doubt that the runs are part of the landscape. Her paintings draw us in, inviting us to linger, leaving behind our busy lives for a moment. Amy’s painting's give us a glimpse into another world, a sanctuary, a place to rest.
“My painting is always evolving,” Amy says. “I think as you grow as a person your work changes too. It’s quite reflective in that aspect.”
Original Painting by Amy Hoedemakers
‘Under The March Sky’
Material: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 1210×910mm
Based in Oxford, North Canterbury, Amy Hoedemakers is a mixed media painter whose work explores abstraction through layered surfaces and material experimentation. Her compositions emerge through an intuitive process of building, obscuring, and revealing forms.
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