About Amalia

It is difficult for me to encompass my life with art in a sole paragraph…or page. What would I like to say about it? What about my own life’s work is of value here to those of you reading this? Should I share with you only the hope, or also the regrets?

A few people profoundly influenced my sometimes stubborn, sometimes abandoned pursuance of my art.

I remember my paternal grandparents, Tata and Lili, with their collections of postcards from around the world that I would shuffle through as if playing with a deck of cards as a child…sitting on the cold and reddish linoleum tiles in their home…occasionally arriving at the Michelangelo cards…the one with Moses…the one with La Pieta…I must have been 4 or 5 years old…and as I sit here today, I can see my little hands holding the images…being mesmerized by their incredible beauty…their marble.

I remember the painting in their living room…of an Indian at his bonfire…the light…the glow…it captured my eyes for hours…

Another was Joao Barrosso…a beautiful man…a friend of my father’s from Portugal, who for my 12^th birthday, gifted me a large pad of newsprint and a big fat pencil. He taught me how to draw horses. For years, all I did was draw horses…all of them from pictures created in my mind…horses in a valley…horses galloping…horses up on their hind legs…powerful…kicking…moving.

I returned to Buenos Aires, where I was born, after graduating from high school here in the U.S. There I began studying at the studio of Lita Speroni…an artist who took me under her wings and taught me most of what I know about being a painter. 

I lived art then…spending hours upon hours everyday in the studio, working…learning…dreaming…believing.

And now, a couple of decades later, I find myself once again completely immersed in my art…in my head…in my heart…most of the images I create, except for a few figures, all come from my own imagining. What you see here, is just a small sample…it is simply work about beauty…about passion…about being grateful for what I know…and what I don’t. 

Thank you for spending some time with my work.

Amalia Fisch
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Currently Amalia creates her artwork in Seattle, Washington where she resides with her husband, three dogs and one cat. She graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Printmaking, which she taught for several years. Now she devotes all of her time to painting and gardening.