I absolutely adore Amy Kligman’s work. Liv­ing and work­ing in Kansas City, Mis­souri (my home­town!), she paints using inter­est­ing pat­terns and a keen sense of unusual storytelling.

A lot of Amy’s work is adorned with pat­tern or some sort of rep­e­ti­tion. I think it’s an inter­est­ing idea that Amy paints every­thing — pat­tern implies exact repli­ca­tion of an image, sort of like a stamp. With her work though, this is not the case. Each flower is not exactly the same, each brush stroke makes part of the pat­tern slightly dif­fer­ent — I really enjoy that. It seems labo­ri­ous and shows how much care goes into her work.

When view­ing the con­tent of her work, I can’t help but be reminded of fables. All of the girls fea­tured in Amy’s paint­ings are sta­tic. The nar­ra­tive is not one of con­flict or action — it’s as if we, as the viewer, are just there for the end of the story. Her paint­ings speak as cau­tion­ary tales and show the con­se­quences of actions.

All images via her Soci­ety 6 page.