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Amy Carstensen, Artist

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Abstract painter finding inspiration everywhere. Traveler, NPR junkie, colorist, foodie, beach bum, Jack Russell playmate, lover of all things fun.

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Thank you @bayoucityartfestival, it’s been a great show! Come on down to memorial park and shop the last day until 6. But not for this painting, which now resides in Houston. #originalart #oilpainting #abstractart #intuitivecreativity #texas taken in Houston, Texas by @carstensenart

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Cypress trees, moss, low water, and the lake an otherworldly shade of green... fantastic juxtaposition of light, color, and lack thereof. #travelogue #louisianabayou #artistlife #colorist #prettythings🐊 taken in Lake Bistineau State Park by @carstensenart

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This beauty found a home in Vicksburg, MS. Some paintings are harder to say goodbye to, but I know this piece will be well-loved. #originalart #oilpainting #abstractartwork #intuitivepainter #floridaartist taken in Vicksburg, Mississippi by @carstensenart

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Thank you to the @vicksburghipstoricartfestival for this Legacy Award. It truly is an honor to be recognized among so many fine artists. This was the cherry on a delightful weekend in downtown Vicksburg. #artistlife #abstractartwork #vicksburg #intuitivepainter #artcommunity taken in Historic Downtown Vicksburg by @carstensenart

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Thank you @stlartfair for another great show. With temps holding steady at 99 degrees for much of the weekend, it was one for the books, but as always the staff and volunteers created a fantastic experience for all. Best moment was watching a friend complete his decades-long art show career with a first place win and a standing ovation from all of his colleagues. There may have been tears… #artistlife #slaf #originalart #oilpaintings #colorist taken in St. Louis Lambert International Airport by @carstensenart

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A little TBT to the most interesting collection of hikes and walks through ancient, rugged lava terrain reminiscent of the moon located in central Idaho. Even the roadie got to enjoy some of it. I enjoy how travel to art shows leads me to fascinating places along the way. #furbaby #artistlife #themuse #travelogue #inspo taken in Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve by @carstensenart

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This piece is headed to Winter Park, but come see some of my figurative works in addition to abstract paintings this weekend at the St. Louis Art Fair. Show starts tonight! #slaf #originalart #carstensenart #artistlife #intuitivecreating taken in Clayton, Missouri by @carstensenart

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The feet shadows are too cute! Such a pretty little lady on her roosting bar. Also, days without losing a paint tube lid: still firmly at zero. #chickensofinstagram #artistlife #inspo #prettythings #gardenday taken in Atlanta, Georgia by @carstensenart

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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better. #maryoliver #originalart #oilpainting #carstensenart #intuitivepainter taken in South Tampa, Florida by @carstensenart

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Puffy clouds, bluebird skies, and a purplish mountain in the distance. About to be back on the road getting ready for the St. Louis Art Fair and cannot wait! #artistlife #ohtheplacesyoullgo #nebraska #prettythings #inspo taken in Lincoln, Nebraska by @carstensenart

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Saint Francis and the Sow
- Galway Kinnell

The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing;
as Saint Francis
put his hand on the creased forehead
of the sow, and told her in words and in touch
blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow
began remembering all down her thick length,
from the earthen snout all the way
through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of the tail,
from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine
down through the great broken heart
to the sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering
from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them:
the long, perfect loveliness of sow.

#artistlife #originalart #poetry #oilpainting #intuitivepainter taken in Park City, Utah by @carstensenart

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No filter. Reliving this magical hike up to Norton Lakes in the Sawtooth Mountains and already planning my next trip. Alpine lakes, pheasants, clear cold waters, wildflowers, conifers, all the shades of green (expect to see those in future paintings), and the best view in the world at the top. #idaho #artistlife #sawtoothmountains #travelogue #inspo taken in Sawtooth National Forest by @carstensenart

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