Amy Wike

Amy Wike is a watercolor and illustration artist based in Portland, Oregon. Since 2017, she's been creating endearingly quirky designs with a colorful and energetic style inspired by small joys and finding delight in the everyday. She believes that communicating complex ideas through bright colors, welcoming, and even cheeky visuals creates an access point for otherwise intimidating concepts. The guiding values behind her art—approachability, connection, and investigating the ways we observe, learn, and perceive—are present in everything she creates.

Amy enjoys offering regular Intro to Watercolor workshops to local audiences and vending at maker markets around town. Notable clients include Friends of the Smithsonian, Trimet, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, Kula Cloth, and many local businesses. Exhibition highlights include being a selected artist in a group exhibition organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum that traveled internationally over the course of five years; solo exhibitions at Gallery GoGo (Portland, OR, 2021) and VisArts Gallery (Rockville, MD, 2016); commissioned site-specific installations for the Torpedo Factory (Alexandria, VA, 2018), CulturalDC (Washington, DC, 2018), and Art All Night (Washington, DC, 2019); and many community group exhibitions in the Mid-Atlantic Region and the Pacific Northwest. She is the recipient of an RACC Make / Learn / Build grant (2021) and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship (2020).

Explore more of Amy’s work on her website at amywikeillustration.com or on Instagram @Amy_Wike.