About

Amy Dean is a visual artist and iconographer whose work bridges traditional craftsmanship with contemporary exploration. Grounded in the use of historical materials such as silverpoint, gold, mineral pigments, found parchment and egg tempera, her art seeks to reveal the sacred within both ecclesiastical and non-ecclesiastical contexts. Her compositions balance reverence and invention, approaching iconography with creativity and canonical discipline while joyfully allowing her other work to move beyond orthodoxy into poetic interpretations of beauty. She sees her non-ecclesiastical drawings as poetry or music. Whether it be a simple line or a symphony of lines, she composes through rhythm and movement, a quiet song, a metered stanza of her inner life, singing with the history of lives that have gone before her. An intimate, ongoing dialogue between the ancient artist and the new.