About

Amy Jarvis is an artist living in Mequon, Wisconsin. Born to an artistic family, her father was a commercial photographer and her mother a fashion designer, she has always been surrounded by creativity and innovation that soaked deep into her spirit and outlook. An urban dweller most of her life, she also has a love and developed eye for natural settings and animals that are reflected in her art.

Amy graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) with a degree in Illustration. She spent years working as a Digital Photo Retoucher in the Milwaukee area and her keen sense of color and lighting made her highly sought after for her vibrant work.

This same sense of colors and their interactions with light, along with a skilled and artistic talent for effective use of the background to enhance the image give her paintings a recognized grace and emotion. She has had a solo show at Langdon Divers Gallery in Fond du Lac that drew large crowds and was among the most successful shows at the gallery. Amy won viewers choice awards in both 2015 and 2017 for an annual regional show put on by Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts (THELMA). Earlier on, she had a pen-and-ink show at Gallery and Frame Shop in Fond du Lac that sold out.

Amy completed a body of work of larger scale oil paintings for her first solo show at THELMA in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and debuted during the Pandemic in July of 2020. This show debuts mythical women across the continents and across the centuries; weaving fact, fiction & legend. This solo show is titled The Mythics.

Jarvis exhibits work at Sadler Gallery in Milwaukee’s Third Ward and continues to take on commission work for patrons and pet owners looking to immortalize their pet.