29 Facts About Amanda Sage

Amanda Sage was born on 19 April 1978 and is an American painter who has studied and worked in Vienna, Austria and Los Angeles, California.

Amanda Sage trained and worked with Ernst and Michael Fuchs, a classical artist who taught her Mischtechnik.

Amanda Sage was born on 19 April 1978 in Denver, Colorado.

Amanda Sage "did a lot of drawing" as a young girl and developed an interest in art in a home that allowed for experimentation.

Amanda Sage lived as a young girl in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

Amanda Sage's family returned to Colorado and settled in Boulder, Colorado, where she was spent most of her formative years.

Amanda Sage's parents were open-minded people who nurtured their daughter's spirituality, sense of fearlessness and consciousness.

Amanda Sage regular meditated mornings at the Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center and went on vision quests and meditative retreats.

Amanda Sage studied art under Hikaru Hirata-Miyakawa who introduced her to "semi-realism" and the works of Ernst Fuchs.

Hirata-Miyakawa describes Amanda Sage as a serious, yet playful student who was a quick-learner.

Amanda Sage taught her to study and realistically represent nature.

Amanda Sage studied under and worked for Ernst Fuchs, Michael's father, starting in 1999.

Amanda Sage taught "underpainting" at Phil Rubinov-Jacobson's 1999 and 2000 "Old Master, New Visions" in Payerbach, Austria.

Amanda Sage obtained studio space in 2000 in the Viennese WUK cultural center, an artists' collective and cultural center, where she organized cultural events and was a board member.

Amanda Sage traveled to Bali in 2006 for an artistic vision quest, in which she only carried paint, brushes and a roll of canvas.

Amanda Sage made Dreams while in Bali, which introduced the egg motif used in many of her subsequent paintings.

Amanda Sage began to exhibit in the United States with other visionary artists and venues beginning in 2007.

Amanda Sage moved to Los Angeles, California, where her works were exhibited at the Temple of Visions gallery.

Amanda Sage has painted live, conducted workshops and delivered lectures at exhibitions and transformational festivals, like Inner Visions at the Boom Festival in Portugal, Palenque Norte's Burning Man, Harmonic Spaces in Australia, Art Basel Miami, and The Nexus Global Youth Summit.

Amanda Sage's works are in galleries and salons worldwide, including Vienna, Australia and Italy.

Amanda Sage is one of ten members of the Visionary Guild that studied under Fuchs.

The guild is part of the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art that opened in September 2013, the idea of which was conceived by Sage and done in concert with Laurence Caruana and A Andrew Gonzalez.

Amanda Sage met both men in 2000 when working with Ernst Fuchs.

Two other guild members, David Heskin and his wife Aloria Weaver, and Amanda Sage founded the Colorado Alliance of Visionary Artists.

Amanda Sage receives inspiration from live music and her own ideas or emotions.

Amanda Sage begins painting by nurturing and allowing a story to develop.

Amanda Sage uses devices, such as playing music or audiobooks, to allow herself to freely and spontaneously let the painting emerge without overthinking.

When she paints live, Amanda Sage often receives a nugget from a conversation as inspiration for her work.

Amanda Sage sees visionary art as a cultural phenomenon and an art form that tells a universal story of interconnectedness of life and the divine.