Huestis’s oils on linen and watercolours on paper explore intense psychological spaces via metaphors of creation and destruction. She often looks to European Old Master painting for inspiration updating such sources with subject matter ranging from airplanes to highways. Claude Bouchard of Ottawa’s Le Droit newspaper described her palette as “sober” with a “restrained tonality” that compliment the personalized qualities of her “gestural lines.” Huestis is currently working on a series of large scale watercolours that examine urban and rural settings with overtones of desolation and rescue. These works as well as a number new oil on linen pieces are scheduled for exhibit in Edmonton and Montreal through 2009.

Over the past decade this Montreal-based artist has exhibited her work in public and commercial galleries across Canada. In addition to creating paintings and drawings Huestis has produced a variety of cast bronzes. She has received awards from the Canada Council for the Arts as well as the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and her work is featured in collections throughout Canada and Europe. Her commissions include the decoration of a pipe organ for Wolff & Associés of Laval, Quebec and a mural for the Prince Rupert Arts Council in British Columbia.

Amy-Claire Huestis was born in Moscow, Idaho and raised in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. She studied in the Creative and Applied Arts Department at Langara College in Vancouver and then entered the Studio Arts program at Montreal’s Concordia University graduating in 1996 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.