Amy is a member of the Paint & Palette and Pottery Clubs. She has recently begun making her own frames in the Woodworking Space.
She was born in Odessa and raised in Houston, Texas. This native Texan has a new exhibit in Fort Worth at House of Neville Gallery. The featured art will be on display through December for the exhibit called “Reflections.”
Her pieces there include some of her yoga pose paintings. She has used watercolor and collage medium in this artwork. “The yoga series deals with the emotional element of balance—balance between light and dark, good and evil, yin and yang.”
Amy began creating art as soon as she could hold a pencil and scissors. Her father, an artist in his own right, encouraged her innate creativity by enrolling her in adult classes at the Houston Museum of Fine Art. She thrived on learning to draw the human body and knew she had found her calling as an artist. One of her earliest teachers told her, “Never throw away any piece of art.” Today, she still has her childhood sketch books in pencil, in addition to all her other artwork.
Amy attended the University of Texas and majored in visual arts. There she learned the art of sculpting and jewelry making. She worked in lost wax casting and created high-end jewelry for many people in Houston. She moved to North Texas in the early ‘50s. Amy went back to school at the University of North Texas where she worked in master’s classes in watercolor. She studied and trained under the fabulous artists Rob Erdle and Mille Giles.
This artist has a lot going on right now. One may say she is at the pinnacle of her lifelong career. In addition to her show in Fort Worth, she will be honored and presented by the Greater Denton Arts Council at the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center in April of 2025. Amy will be giving a presentation of her work and a demonstration of her watercolor technique.
She is currently working on a 20-piece series of women over 70. The mixed media pieces are full of joy and innocence. They show that you can grow old gracefully and retain a youthful essence. “This era of women is often overlooked and unseen by society,” she says. Before working on this series, she was working in clay, creating life-sized heads and totem poles. The totem poles are whimsical and detailed, with an air of playfulness. You can find her work on her website at www.amyschnoll.com.
In 2018, when she and her late husband Stan built their Robson Ranch home, they had the third garage converted into an art studio space for her to work in. She now lives with her sister Holly Hunsicker. Besides her passion for creating art, you can find her working out in the indoor pool daily.