Amy Sidrane

Amy E. Sidrane was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In the early 1960’s her family moved to the Peninsula, and she enrolled in classes at the Palos Verdes Art Association when it was located in Lunada Bay. She began studying art as a scholarship student with the renowned Russian Impressionist, Sergei Bongart. She credits Bongart with providing her with a strong traditional foundation in aesthetics. For the next several years, she developed her own unique style, studying from life and painting on location in both the United States and abroad. Her works have been exhibited at the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Springville Museum, and the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, as well as in galleries in New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado and California. In 1998 she was awarded the Gold Medal for landscape painting at the California Art Club’s 89th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition. Sidrane is recognized as a co-founder of Plein-Air Painters of California, and is an Artist Member of the California Art Club.