Amsted is a self-taught artist from Aix (France) born in 1982.
Prior to becoming an artist, Amsted worked in a psychiatric hospital for ten years. Particularly drawn to artistic mediation, she decided to train in art therapy and witnessed firsthand how important a resource nature is for human beings, how it is a key element in their balance.
This new course influenced her creativity in bio-inspiration, that is, deriving inspiration from nature to develop new systems. From her very first strokes, her graphic signature showed a meandering form – the curve – that would become her preferred motif.
For Amsted, abstract form enables the spectator to form their own interpretation of her work, which evokes undulating elements from the organic or marine world.
In this way she creates her own biocenosis, a community for all living things, both animal and plant.
Doing, undoing, redoing, leaving ephemeral traces, establishing connections between the things that remain and the things that disappear are part and parcel of cyclical movement. A work that is both graphic and living: the artist becomes one with the medium during the creation process, and in a state of flow appears to create an ephemeral dance.
