Alter-ego: Arty Amy

Amy

Characteristics:~ gregarious, fun, creative, generous, bohemian

Life with Amy:~
a free spirit, she has a day job to pay the rent but paints, sketches and sculpts expressively and exuberantly (if not particularly skillfully) and dreams that these might one day fill her days. She dresses in jewel bright colours - especially turquoise, orange and purple - accessorised with exotic jewellery, soft suede shoes in rainbow hues, paisley patterned scarves or fine mohair shawls. Her home is equally colourful and eclectic. Her bathroom is painted peacock blues, greens and golds and has a skylight over the bath so she can lie and watch the stars. Impulsive, sensuous and a little flighty, she drawn to the new and lives in, and for, the moment. She is always exploring, simply for her own enjoyment and edification, history, philosophy, art, languages - whatever takes her fancy. Piles of books teeter on almost every surface and line the risers of the spiral staircase up to her studio. She walks regularly in the mountains or along the beach, practices yoga daily, and burns scented candles at all times. These practices ground her somewhat and prevent her floating away in a hot air balloon or attached to a kite.

Amy believes in dreams-and-wishes-come-true and, for her, they often do. She is more about the heart than the head. Sociable and sparkly, her life is colourful and richly textured.

It's Amy who buys shoes that look like a summer sky, or covered with flowers and rainbows... They make her heart and feet dance.

Amy's favourite quotations:~

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

Wassily Kandinsky

though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing.
e.e. cummings

In our life there is a single colour, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the colour of love.

Marc Chagall

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman

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