Painting ‘en plein air’ is very active and challenging. This type of painting, involves taking a travel easel outdoors and painting from life. It is traditional to paint landscapes, but Amanda also enjoys painting small still-life studies outside. The artist usually works within a small window of time (2-3 hours). Lighting changes fast, so getting down her initial impressions is what is most important in her work.
Accepted into the Oil Painters of America National Exhibition 2023. Reinert Fine Art Gallery in Charlston, SC. March 31-April 30, 2023.
On display at Howard County Art Center, Ellicott City until August 11th, 2024. Juried Submission for Paint It! Ellicott City, 2024.
Painted ‘en plein air’. Available at Crystal Moll Gallery in Baltimore, MD through August 2024. Sales directly through gallery. https://www.crystalmoll.com/11th-annual-summer-plein-air-show/albums/amanda-milliner
Painted en plein air.
*Won 1st Place: Best of the Bay Award in Paint Annapolis.
On display at The Academy Museum in Easton, MD - Dec. 2022
Prints and cards available on ETSY
During the Winter months, when it is too cold to paint outside, Amanda works inside her home studio and focuses on painting stillife. Her studies are a great way to take the time to really see color relationships and form.
Painting landscapes is always a challenging and exciting endeavor. Amanda often paints from life, on location ‘en plein air’.
“The decisions that are made have to be efficient and exact. At times the weather does not cooperate, but it contributes to the challenge. There is a very rustic and adventurous feeling about the experience of painting outdoors. It is one of the most freeing things about painting; to venture outside, find a great location, and translate a vast three dimensional experience onto a two dimensional surface. “
2024 Plein Air Easton Quick Draw.
Completed for Paint Annapolis Quick Draw June 2, 2024. *Awarded Annapolis Gallery Association Award, public artist 2024.
On display at Howard County Art Center, Ellicott City until August 11th. Juried Submission for Paint It! Ellicott City, 2024.
Painted in St. Simon's, GA for the American Impressionist Society wet-paint competition 2024.
Awarded Honorable Mention at the American Impressionist Society, wet-paint competition, Brandywine, DE. Aug. 2023.
Paint Annapolis 2024.
When she needs to gain momentum to start a big project, Amanda will often do small studies to get her ideas moving. Small designs or palette knife studies help her to investigate what she wants to achieve from a bigger painting.
Amanda often chooses simple objects that get her excited about color. She is a big proponent of painting everyday objects or scenes and trying to make them look at beautiful as possible.
“Paint something that isn’t anything until it is painted well.”
- Charles Hawthorne
2024 American Impressionist Society Small Works Show at Anderson Fine Art Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA.
Selected for The American Impressionist Society, 7th annual Small Works Showcase. District Gallery | Knoxville, Tennessee
April 14 - May 20, 2023
On display at Artists’ Gallery Ellicott City May 3 - June 25. Sales through Artists' Gallery
On display at Artists’ Gallery Ellicott City May 3 - June 25. Sales through Artists' Gallery
Amanda tries to include figure drawing and painting into her studio practice regularly. She paints and sketches from live models to help see shape and form and always enjoys the challenge of trying to get a likeness.
On display at BWI Airport, Maryland from March 18-July 18, 2022. located in Gallery, pre-security, between concourse C & D.
Painted from live model.
On Display at Artists Gallery in Ellicott City May 31-June 25.
Private Collection
8x8” Prints Available on ETSY, $40.
8x8” Prints available on ETSY, $40.
On Display at the Columbia Art Center: Visionary Women Show: March 2022. 8x8” Prints available on ETSY, $40.
Over the past few years Amanda has become increasingly interested in 2-D design and is self-taught on Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator.
Amanda is the current head of Marketing & Publicity at The Artists’ Gallery in Ellicott City, MD (2023-present). She designed the artist collective logo and was apart of the team to launch the rebranding of the gallery 2022. Amanda was also in charge of the social media for the gallery from Sept. 2021-Nov. 2023.
Located on Main Street in Historic Ellicott City. Custom designed for Artists’ Gallery Ellicott City in 2022.
Amanda has sketchbooks full of quick notan drawings. She draws in permanent marker to help her record light information before she starts a plein air painting. This process helps her to work out her composition by seeing big shapes and overall design. These sketches also help her to stay on track with her initial vision, even when the light changes.