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Originals by Amanda Stratford

Amanda Stratford [Biography]

Stag Party

Original Acrylic Painting

A Desert Wind

Original Acrylic Painting

Bad Ass... Encore!

Original Acrylic Painting

High Pointe

Original Acrylic Painting

Me, Here at Last

Original Acrylic Painting

Striped Turn

Original Acrylic Painting

Wilted

Original Acrylic Painting

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A Chequered History

Original Acrylic Painting

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The Long View

Original Acrylic Painting

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Forget-Me-Not

Original Acrylic Painting

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Rudolph Goes Awol

Original Acrylic Painting

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Tall Tales

Original Acrylic Painting

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Almost Halfway

Original Acrylic Painting

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Equine Aquiescence

Original Acrylic Painting

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Feathered Flossing

Original Acrylic Painting

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Fine Lines

Original Acrylic Painting

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On The Edge

Original Acrylic Painting

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A Life Seen

Original Acrylic Painting

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Admirals Fleet

Original Acrylic Painting

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Bad Hair Day

Original Acrylic Painting

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Blowing In The Wind

Original Acrylic Painting

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Blue Remembered Horns

Original Acrylic Painting

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Bovine Lines

Original Acrylic Painting

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Capra !

Original Mixed Media

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Capra, Capra, Capra !

Original Mixed Media

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Car Couture

Original Mixed Media

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Distance Echanted

Original Mixed Media

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Equine Eye

Original Mixed Media

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Facing Fore

Original Mixed Media

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First Tango?

Original Mixed Media

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Gazing not Galloping II

Original Oil Painting

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Gazing not Grazing

Original Acrylic Painting

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High Dining

Original Mixed Media

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Just Five More Minutes

Original Mixed Media

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Just Home

Original Acrylic Painting

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Look Both Ways

Original Acrylic Painting

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Looking Not Hoofing

Original Mixed Media

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Muzzle the Cow

Original Mixed Media

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Never Forget

Original Acrylic Painting

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Night Passage

Original Mixed Media

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Poster Girl

Original Acrylic Painting

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Ring-O-Ring Of Roses

Original Acrylic Painting

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Safety In Numbers

Original Mixed Media

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Shadow Play

Original Acrylic Painting

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Snowy Snowy Night

Original Acrylic Painting

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Stripe Out

Original Mixed Media

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Struthio!

Original Mixed Media

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The Admiral

Original Acrylic Painting

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The Coworkers

Original Mixed Media

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The Sting

Original Acrylic Painting

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Where Eagles Dare

Original Acrylic Painting

Amanda Stratford

Amanda Stratford has put together a portfolio of work to date which reflects her love of walking and travelling as well as her sense of humour, leading to unusual, insightful and often quirky images.


Amanda studied Shop and Store Display and Interior/Exhibition Design at Medway College of Design in Rochester. She has worked in both the interior (commercial and domestic) and exhibition design industries for more than 25 years, as well as creating watercolour visuals for architects and developers.

In 1992, a love of sailing inspired Amanda and a friend to set sail from Faversham in Kent in a 37' boat, making the 6000 n.mile [6900 miles] transatlantic crossing to Grenada in the West Indies. She worked in the charter industry for a year, enabling her to explore the many islands, before settling on the Dutch/French Island of Sint Maarten/St Martin where she built up a successful design business.

The vibrancy and colour of the West Indies stayed with her after her return to England seven years later, when she moved into the world of themed exhibitions, designing colourful, sculptural sets into which storylines were carefully woven. These displays inspired the seed of the idea for her portraits; each one designed to tell a story - to reveal glimpses of the personality as well as the face you know so well.

Amanda gradually began to devote more time to her painting, enjoying the freedom it allowed - so different from the constraints of the design industry. She wanted to find a technique that moved away from the precision of her design work. As a self-taught artist she chose acrylic as a medium and quickly moved from brushes to palette knife.

Painting to a larger format is an important part of the process for Amanda and, with her strong sense of design and colour, she is able to mix vibrant colours directly on the board, laying on heavy texture to build up the image. Her sketching is minimal, with the image and colour developing as the painting emerges.

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