View From The Canoe

Amy Wright’s Water Ways captures the evolving relationship between land and water, focusing on the Barwon River and its surrounding landscape. Exploring the river’s movement—from its gentle currents to the dramatic erosion of ravines and escarpments—Wright’s paintings reflect the quiet power of natural forces at play. At the river’s edge, reeds and amphibious plants twist and bend, shaped by the water’s ebb and flow. Wright renders these forms with sensitivity, emphasizing both their resilience and the delicate balance they maintain within their shifting environment. In Water Ways, stillness and motion exist in dialogue. The land remains steady, while the river carves and reshapes, revealing the subtle yet profound transformations that occur where these elements meet. Wright’s work invites viewers into this liminal space, offering a meditation on nature’s quiet, continuous evolution. In Wright's Words: "Almost daily, I walk along the banks of the River Barwon. The landscape that I t