About Amanda

Amanda Farquharson is a fine artist from Hamilton, Ontario. Her work is cheerful, colourful, bright, and explores themes of nature, family, animals, and memory.

She has a husband and two kids, a dog, chickens, and a big garden! She is also Type 1 Diabetic and has Celiac Disease.

FAQs

  • I do take commissions, when I have time and if they are in line with the other work I am doing! Feel free to reach out to info@amandafarquharson.com for a quote and an idea of how long the waiting list is.

  • I don’t currently teach lessons, as my time is limited and I choose to spend it painting right now! But I am open to teaching opportunities if you have one!

  • I always loved art and my father was an artist. When I was 12 I took a one-on-one painting class with a local watercolour artist and I still use lots of what I learned in that class today!

    I was lucky to have a great high school art teacher (thank you Mrs. Sheppard!), and went to York University for a BFA. A few years later I started painting watercolours again and slowly developed a way of working and an interest in other media like oil and pastels. After that it’s mostly practice and just a love of making art and reading about how other artists work!

  • I had stopped updating my blog and a lot of the information wasn’t relevant to my current work anymore. But if you desperately need a blog post, let me know by email!

  • I would like to acknowledge that the land on which I live and create is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabeg and Mississaugas of the Credit. This territory is covered by the Between the Lakes Purchase and the Upper Canada Treaties, is within the lands protected by the “Dish With One Spoon” wampum agreement and is directly adjacent to Haldiman Treaty territory.

    It’s important to me as someone who regularly explores and paints this landscape as a settler with white privilege to acknowledge the people who cared for this land long before and after me.

    I support the Anishnawbe Health Foundation, which is a charity that supports improved health and well-being for the Indigenous community in Toronto. Their website is https://supportanishnawbe.ca/ if you are interested to learn more.

  • I am personally committed to anti-racism, feminism, inclusion and support of 2SLGBTQIA+, sustainability and the environment, and support/protection of mental health, and all of the ways in which these issues intersect.

    I am far from perfect as an activist, but I will continue learning and pushing myself to use my privilege to work towards a more fair, sustainable, supportive, and equitable world for all.

    Some ways in which I do this work include reading and doing research, donating to organizations that take on social justice work, calling/writing to local/national governments, having conversations with family and friends, sharing the art, literature, and voices of people with less privilege than myself on social media/privately, and by researching the values and sustainability of companies before purchasing from them. I am always open to new ways of learning about these issues/apologizing for getting it wrong so please feel free to email me if you have any recommendations.