view from Burns Point Bridge Painting

Amanda Holt Robicheaux works primarily in acrylic paints, experimenting with gel mediums, iridescent and metallics; creating layers of matte and glossy layers with minimal brushwork. Primarily using a palette knife to create more texture, occasionally drawing in with graphite, hoping to capture that ephemeral play of light on surfaces. Bio Amanda Holt Robicheaux was born in Caracas, Venezuela and lived there until her early teens. Her family is from Louisiana, and she moved to Lafayette in 1991. She studied Fine Arts and Industrial Design at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She worked with local southern Louisiana artists Wayne Ditch 1998-99 doing restoration and renovation. She also worked with Robert Dafford in 2001-2003, painting murals in Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana. Moving from Lafayette to Franklin, Louisiana five years ago changed her everyday topography. It has inspired her to experiment from painting her customary abstract figures to working from photographs taken from driving the back roads of Louisiana, and local rookeries.