Seattle Artist Amy Huddleston Northwest Art

I was born in 1964. I started drawing and painting as a kid. I began formally studying painting around 1983. Shortly after that I was taught an approach to painting by Bill Cumming, based on a branch of Modern Art: Les Nabis.

"Les Nabis artists worked in a variety of media, using oils on both canvas and cardboard, distemper on canvas and wall decoration, and also produced posters, prints, book illustration, textiles and furniture. Considered to be on the cutting edge of modern art during their early period, their subject matter was representational (though often symbolist in inspiration), but was design oriented along the lines of the Japanese prints they so admired, and art nouveau. Unlike those types however, the artists of this circle were highly influenced by the paintings of the impressionists, and thus while sharing the flatness, page layout and negative space of art nouveau and other decorative modes, much of Nabis art has a painterly, non-realistic look, with color palettes often reminding one of Cézanne and Gauguin." (wikipedia)