Ranging in scale, colour and form, Amanda Gruenwald’s painting practise affirms the painterly traditions of the canvas as an object. Each work is the result of improvisation and deliberation, the interior dynamics informed by the freedom of chance and experimentation in the earliest stages, then developed further through a constantly active meditative process. Her works are fluid and open-ended and expressively energised. Titles commonly detail the dominant palette with surfaces being layers of over-painting predominantly achieved by pooling and spreading. Informed by but departing from the well-established traditions of colour field painting, Gruenwald’s paintings are “visually fresh in the here and now.”¹