Findings Art Gallery Owner, Amy Calandra Davis, championed a group of Findings artists who collaborated to collectively develop a one-of-a-kind signature series of artwork. The artists pulled inspiration from the organization, the M4K 10-year anniversary milestone, and each other to create this body of work. Each piece of work incorporates a mustache, mixed medium, multiple artists, and the passion and purpose of community. Coming together to create something powerful and good is what makes Lynchburg and its Growers incredible.
The online auction of these pieces supporting M4K Lynchburg will begin on Sunday, November 26 and end on Friday, December 1st
If you'd like to buy a piece before (or during) the auction the "Buy Now" price is $3,000 per piece. Call Chris Boswell at 434-426-1813 if you'd like to buy.
Raised in a family brimming with commercial and fine artists, Alice has always had a deep love for art, but didn’t start painting until early 2015. Her first experimental paintings gave way to a variety of subject matter including abstracts, florals, faces, landscapes, Mediterranean villages, beaches, still life, and commissioned pieces of family houses and pets. Alice’s work features bright and colorful acrylic paint on canvas, canvas board and watercolor paper. Her work is produced with her favorite selection of brushes, wedges and palette knives. Alice’s style is to quickly create her subject matter with broad painterly strokes leaving thick, expressive bands and pods of colors mixed on her palette board as well as the canvas itself. In less than seven years, Alice’s artwork has been displayed in several regional galleries and a dozen one- woman shows. A 36 year resident of Lynchburg and a 1980 graduate of Mary Baldwin College, more than 500 pieces of Alice’s artwork can be found in the homes of more than 350 collectors.
Amy Calandra Davis has B.A. in Studio Art and Art History as well a B.S. in Housing and Interior Design. After owning several original art-based companies, Amy and her husband Jimmy opened Findings Gallery. Amy’s own artwork focuses on color and form, texture and pattern. Rather than just painting with brushes, Amy prefers to “draw” her imagery on canvas. Crayons, graphite, chalk, pastels, gold leaf and acrylic paints are her mediums of choice. Her process is never the same from piece to piece and it’s that organic unpredictability that gives her art such a unique, vibrant aesthetic.
Amy Gallagher is an abstract artist who specializes in modern tribal inspired portraits. Her work is bold, intimate, and reflective of her perception of the human spirit. Amy uses acrylic, textiles, paper, and other assorted mediums in her creations to build texture and grit. Her objective is to overpower the viewer with a desire to touch and connect.
Amy’s paintings allow for an emotional connection between her imagination, her memories, and her observations of the human shape and spirit. Her work often originates in dream imagery during her sleep – visualizing faces and inspiration. When the expression is then realized in her conscious state, it becomes a very therapeutic and fluid process.
Amy grew up in the Pacific Northwest and attended the Art Institute of Seattle, receiving her degree in Communication Arts with a focus on Graphic Design and Illustration. Amy has worked in several unique design capacities over the last 25 years, pulling inspiration from both her roots and her travels. Today, Amy co-owns a Marketing & PR Firm in Lynchburg, Virginia where she resides.
Lindsey’s paintings are an escape and journey – a time to relish the process of creativity: the brush strokes, the layers, the juxtaposition of colors. She works primarily with acrylic paints for their intensity of color and the ability to layer and create textures with various acrylic mediums and gels. A native of Lynchburg, Virginia, Lindsey’s landscapes generally focus on special places that she has known all her life, including fields at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the pristine beauty of the Cowpasture River. Working from onsite sketches and photographs, she mixes observations with her own personal memories and feelings of how she perceives a place. In addition to being an artist, Lindsey is a full-time art educator, wife, and mother of two young children. Her work is featured at Serena & Lily, Chairish.com, and the Capital Artist Collective.
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