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Amy Riches

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Landscape painter inspired by the wild beauty of Iceland. Often exploring & painting on location, bringing that experience back with me to the studio.🏳️‍🌈🇮🇸 No AI🚫 linktr.ee/amyrichesart

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · Nov 16

Time to hang more on Bluesky! I’m Amy, a landscape painter based in Iceland. I love this wild environment so expect to see a LOT of art like this + posts about my plein air adventures! This is one of my oil paintings from last year, Vífilsfell over the river.

#landscapepainting #fineart #pleinair

Landscape oil painting of river and mountains in the distance

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 3h

This painting along with other originals are available from my store:
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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 3h

🎬 Little process video of one of my latest paintings. From rough sketch and block in through to the final.

Vatnshlíðarhorn’s shadow | Oil | 24 x 18cm | Available

#video #process #oilpainting #iceland #art #landscapeart #landscape

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 2d

Coloured hills of Baðstofa | A4 Art Print | Framed or unframed

You can purchase art prints here:
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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 2d

I have a small series of art prints made from some of my paintings – could make a lovely gift!
Here I’ve painted the rich orange colours of the geothermal hills of Baðstofa in Krýsuvík, which were bright in the late afternoon sun.

#landscapepainting #iceland #oilpainting #landscape #scape #art

Photo of one of my art prints framed and hanging on a wall. The art print is of one of Icelandic landscape paintings - 'Coloured hills of Baðstofa' it's a geothermal area where the hills have all sorts of colours with orange, white and reddish earth.

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 4d

Another #pleinair outing during the summer months to Rauðhólar. The colours were so vibrant in the sunlight - such a fun area to paint in all seasons!

#landscapeart #oilpainting #iceland #landscape #art #scape

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 5d

Beautiful atmosphere!

Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Stefan! 🙏

Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you! 🙏

Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 6d

Wow 😍

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful!

Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 6d

This painting is available as an A5 limited edition art print, framed or unframed, here’s the link if you’re interested

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 6d

It was fun pushing the warm and cool contrast in this painting from my Fagradalsfjall eruption 2021 series.

Volcano - Day 70. 07.06.2021 | Oil | Art prints available

  #oilpainting #volcano #scape #iceland #landscapepainting #art

Oil painting of volcanic eruption which happened in Iceland 2021. The yellow and orange heat of the lava contrast agains the cool blues of the late evening

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 8d

New #pleinair oil painting of Lambarfoss for #waterfallwednesday I painted this on location during our trip to Husafell last month. I was hiking around lambartungur and came across a little track which led me to this beauty!

#landscapepainting #iceland #oilpainting #landscape #scape #art

oil painting made on location during a trip to Husafell. The painting is of the waterfall 'Lambarfoss' - what really struck me was the explosion of colour around the waterfall, with bright green and orange moss decorating the rocks contrasting against the barren rocky hillside.

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 10d

An old #pleinair sketch from a trip driving around Fljótshlíð. Looking owards Þórsmörk there was some some stunning light, illuminating the distant glacier and mountains in this warm hazy mist.

Entrance to Þórsmörk | Oil on toned paper

#landscapeart #oilpainting #iceland #landscape #art

Oil painting made en plein looking over towards Þórsmörk. Over the green vegetation in the foreground in the bright hazy distance you can see the mountains and glacier.

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 14d

Distant Keilir at sunset | Oil
This framed painting is available from my store:
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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 14d

NEW mini oil painting, available framed and mounted. On the shoreline in Vesturbær, looking out over the sea towards Keilir, the evening sky was bathed in pink light creating a beautiful palette of purples and blues.

#landscapepainting #iceland #oilpainting #landscape #scape #art #sunset

photograph of a framed and mounted mini oil painting (3.5 x 2.5in.) The painting is of distant Keilir, a pointed mountain silhouetted against an evening sky of pinks and purples

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 16d

Plein air painting in Þingvellir national park. 🍂Managed to find the last of the autumn colours after gale force winds stripped most of the foliage 😭 Autumn never lasts long here!

#landscapeart #oilpainting #iceland #landscape #art #pleinair #autumn

Photo oil painting on location at Þingvellir national park in Iceland. Easel is set up in front of the landscape with autumn colours of oranges and yellows.

Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you! It’s so beautiful, so much to explore!

Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 20d

🎬 Earlier this month I had a fantastic week in Húsafell, west Iceland. We actually had great weather so lots of plein air painting! Here’s a little overview of the #adventure – will share more stuff soon!

#video #oilpainting #iceland #art #landscapeart #landscape

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Arthur Baron-Clément @arthur.baron-clement.com · 22d

Wish upon a (red) star (2025)
#art

Random landscape digital painting. A red-dressed person is watching some valleys running up the horizon where a yellowish sky is framing a red moon.

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 22d

Epic! Looks like Iceland 😄

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 22d

You can view the full painting here:
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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 22d

Detail of my painting of the mountainside in the South of Iceland travelling towards Vik. I took this trip on my first ever visit to Iceland. Little did I know that it would later become my home!

Hatta, Mýrdalsveit | Oil

#landscapepainting #iceland #oilpainting #landscape #scape #art #mountains

Close up photo of an oil painting of the mountain Hatta in Mýrdalsveit South of Iceland. The very tops have dusting on snow which disappears into the earthy and warm moss tones of the mountain side.

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Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you! 🙏

Amy Riches @amyrichesart.bsky.social · 24d

Here Sveifluháls in Krýsuvík is shown at sunset, as the last rays of sun hit the top of the peaks. I love capturing these beautiful moments in the Icelandic landscape.

Sunset at Krýsuvík | A4 Art Print | Framed or unframed

#landscapepainting #iceland #oilpainting #landscape #scape #art

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