Amy has been working as a professional artist and teacher since graduating from the University of Idaho in 1974.  She began her career illustrating field guides of Northwest mammals and birds for ornithology and mammalogy professor, Earl Larrison.  After moving to Puget Island, WA, a small fishing and dairy farming community on the Columbia River, Amy began spending her days drawing and painting from nature.  She taught drawing, painting, and relief printmaking at Lower Columbia College in Longview. Following a move to Olympia a few years later, she enlarged her work and her audience, securing gallery representation in Seattle, Denver, Atlanta and Los Angeles.  Shows, sales and commissions motivated her work which continued to be inspired by nature but expanded to imagery more personal than scientific documentation.  Connection with the spiritual and invigorating forces of nature which initiate a transcendent experience fuel her ongoing expression in the visual arts. 

In addition, Amy works as a private tutor for students of all ages with dyslexia or other learning challenges.

She is married to Greg, a forester and wetlands restoration specialist for the Natural Resource Conservation Service.  They have two college-age daughters.