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Amber Lamoreaux
USA
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"Life itself inspires me, and nature is its loudest voice."
Amber Lamoreaux is an emerging artist from the Chicagoland area whose practice turns the natural world into something luminous, layered, and alive with color. Working across alcohol inks, resin geodes, floral photography, and other mixed media, she has built a body of work centered on the radiant structures and restless movement found in nature. Her pieces tend to hover in the space between abstraction and recognition, capturing the sensation of petals, water, mineral veins, and shifting atmosphere without ever settling into the strictly literal. For Amber, nature is not simply a subject to be copied but a source to be translated, intensified, and reimagined on her own terms.
Call of the Ocean II | Acrylic
$175
36(in) x 24(in)
"Call of the Ocean II" presents an interplay of turquoise blues and earthy tones that mimic the restless movement of seawater. The fluid transitions and layered textures evoke shifting currents and foamy waves, creating a sense of depth and motion. Created from a feeling of inspiration and awe at the beauty of the sea.
Her love of making began early and has never really left her. Even as a child she was drawn to painting and drawing, and her favorite subjects were the vivid pieces of the natural world, especially flowers and forests. That instinct arrived long before any formal training and has quietly shaped everything that followed, giving her work its enduring sense of delight. What began as a child's fascination with color and growing things has matured into a serious contemporary practice, yet the original joy remains clearly visible, and it lends even her most ambitious pieces a warmth and sincerity that feels entirely unforced.
Wrapped in Violet | Ink
$60
14(in) x 11(in)
Wrapped in Violet portrays fluid washes of amethyst and violet that pool into deeper indigo fields, with fine veins of metallic gold threading through the composition. Created from a space of enchantment with the colors vibrant purple and violet as they appear in nature through flowers.
"As a child, flowers and forests were all I painted."
Travel played an unusually large part in forming her artistic eye. Growing up, she was fortunate to visit places like Maui, Spain, and Australia, and each of these landscapes left a lasting deposit in her imagination. The lush Hawaiian orchids and rainforests, the wildlife of Australia, and the open Spanish countryside all became part of her internal library of color and form. These early encounters with such varied natural beauty widened her sense of what nature could look like, and they continue to surface in the palettes, textures, and moods of the work she makes today, far from where she first saw them.
Caramel Drift | Ink
$60
14(in) x 11(in)
Caramel Drift incorporates translucent washes of caramel, beige, blush and gold that flow into soft layers. Subtle metallic accents and delicate gold veining convey gentle movement and quiet depth, lending a refined, understated presence. In a rare moment I felt inspired to create this piece in gentle neutrals and earth tones instead of my usual vibrant colors.
What distinguishes Lamoreaux's work above all is its sense of controlled vitality. In her alcohol ink abstractions, pigment moves with a fluid unpredictability, pooling into translucent layers that feel at once spontaneous and carefully deliberate. Blues, violets, teals, golds, and deep charcoals appear to drift, fracture, and bloom across the surface, forming compositions that echo geological formations, ocean currents, and celestial phenomena. The effect is a body of work that manages to be both intimate and expansive at the same time, grounded firmly in material process yet always open to vast and shifting visual interpretation by whoever happens to be standing before it.
This abstract piece presents an interplay of soft blues and muted greens, accented by delicate veins of gold that weave through the composition. The fluid forms blend seamlessly, creating a sense of depth and movement reminiscent of underwater landscapes. Inspired by the cold feeling of ocean water.
Winter Ocean | Ink
$60
14(in) x 11(in)
"I let the pigment pool, bloom, and separate on its own, and in that unpredictability I find the rhythms that move through the natural world."
"Travelling as a child to places like Maui, Spain, and Australia showed me lush orchids and rainforests, wildlife, and open countryside, and those landscapes never left me, so now I work across inks, resin, and photography to translate that abundance into color and light, hoping a viewer might slow down and rediscover the wonder hiding inside the most familiar flower."
Chocolate Marble | Resin
$370
21(in) x 30(in)
This freeform marbled geode was inspired by the beautiful Bianco Antico granite's colors and swirls. Its swirls are much more exaggerated, but I sought to recreate the feel of a beloved granite counter I once owned in this artwork piece. I find granite slabs to be absolutely mesmerizing.
Her chosen materials are central to how meaning arrives in the work. In the alcohol ink pieces she embraces the fluid, unpredictable movement of pigment as it pools, blooms, and separates across the surface, a process that mirrors the organic rhythms found everywhere in nature, where no two forms are ever exactly alike. Her resin geodes build directly on that same fascination, translating mineral structures into layered, crystalline compositions that suggest depth, luminosity, and slow transformation. Each medium offers her a different way of listening to the natural world, and she moves between them with a curiosity that keeps the whole practice restless and evolving.
Noir Splendor | Ink
$60
14(in) x 11(in)
Noir Splendor - This abstract piece presents a dynamic interplay of deep blacks, soft grays, and shimmering gold accents, creating a sense of fluid movement across the piece. Inspired by the darkest of night skies lit up by shimmering stars.
Photography gives her yet another lens on the same abiding preoccupations. Through her floral photography she looks closely at the delicate architecture and intricate color of flowers, capturing their richness while drawing out their surprising sculptural presence. Here the impulse is less about invention and more about revelation, about noticing what is already there and inviting others to see it too. Whether she is guiding pigment across a surface or framing a single bloom through a lens, the underlying gesture stays remarkably consistent, a patient attention to natural form and an eagerness to share the quiet astonishment that such close looking can produce.
This abstract piece presents a harmonious blend of deep blues, purples, and subtle grays, punctuated by delicate veins of gold that weave throughout the composition. The liquid-like forms flow, creating depth and movement. I was inspired to create this piece because I felt an urge to create in both purple and blue simultaneously and I enjoyed the interplay between the two colors.
Sapphire Currents | Ink
$60
14(in) x 11(in)
Across every medium she works in, Lamoreaux returns again and again to a single threshold, the exact point where organic form begins to dissolve into abstraction. Her compositions never merely depict nature in a straightforward way. Instead they work to distill its essence, its shimmer, its motion, its depth, its contrast, and its bloom, into something concentrated and newly felt. This is the conceptual heart of her practice, the conviction that the truest portrait of a flower or a mineral vein may not be a faithful copy at all, but a heightened translation that captures how it feels to encounter such beauty in the first place.
"I amplify color until the familiar turns into something extraordinary."
There is a generosity in the effect her work aims to have on the people who encounter it. Lamoreaux wants viewers to feel genuinely drawn into the vibrancy of the natural world, and to leave with a renewed sense of amazement at the beauty quietly surrounding them every single day. By amplifying color and elevating natural forms through abstraction, she turns her paintings and photographs into small invitations to pay closer attention. Her work asks very little of a viewer beyond a willingness to slow down and look, and in return it offers a reminder of how extraordinary the ordinary world can be.
Feathered Violet | Ink
$60
14(in) x 11(in)
This abstract ink pattern evokes a sense of gentle movement, with delicate transitions from deep violet to soft lilac. To me it is representative of soft billowing lavender petals, like the type found in Iris blooms, gently blowing in the breeze.
As an emerging artist, she is actively developing a distinctive visual identity rooted in nature but elevated through contemporary material experimentation. In her hands a flower becomes a bold statement of color, a mineral vein becomes a visual rhythm, and a simple wash of pigment becomes an entire landscape of feeling. This transformation is the quiet engine of her work, the way it lifts recognizable things into a register that is heightened, expressive, and unmistakably her own. She is still early in her journey, yet her sensibility is already clear and coherent, and it grows more assured with each new series she undertakes.
Oceanic Reverie portrays a meeting of aquamarine and graphite. This abstract composition presents translucent washes that flow across a luminous field. Ribbon-like veils of blue meld with smoky grays and charcoal, while delicate granular textures add depth and contrast. This piece makes me feel and smell the saltwater air, as if I'm next to the ocean, walking along the Ocean City boardwalk.
Oceanic Reverie | Ink
$120
24(in) x 18(in)
Amber Lamoreaux's art is, in the end, an exploration of abundance in all its forms. It celebrates the abundance of color found throughout nature, the abundance of possibility held within her chosen materials, and the abundance of emotion that lives in the spaces between representation and pure abstraction. Everything she makes returns to that idea of plenty, of a world overflowing with beauty for anyone willing to notice it. Both familiar and extraordinary at once, her work stands as a sustained celebration of nature's complexity, its restless energy, and above all its light, offered openly to whoever is ready to receive it.
Emerald Flux | Ink
$60
14(in) x 11(in)
Emerald Flux is an abstract study of green, inspired by flowing fabric. This piece incorporates translucent washes of rainforest green and pistachio that pool and overlap across a crisp white field. Inspired by the beauty of deep emerald green.
"In nature, no two forms are ever exactly the same."
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