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Lifecycle
Management
and Product
Development as
Global Chief
Creative Officer,
CCO
Liaison between fortune 500 companies, select wholesalers and their suppliers in producing creative, brand exclusive programs
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Meet Amanda Giddens
President and CCO
Home Decor, Textiles and Art Licensing - Wholesale and Retail
Creative Charlie
by Amanda Giddens
Global Fine Art
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1992-Current
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Global En Plein Air painting, studio painting, mixed media art and illustration. Cover artist on Wilma! Magazine, featured in LUMINA newspaper, exhibited in the Gallery at Lumina, Airlie Gardens, McClure Gallery, Screen Gems Studios, Art in the Garden event, The Villages at the River Club, Downtown Artist Co-op and others.
Cheekwood Botanical Gardens
Estate and Art Museum - En Plein Air Competition 2020 (left) 16"H x 20"W oils on canvas featuring the Color Garden sphinx and sculpture by Chihuly Garden and Glass
En Plein Air
11x14" oils on canvas (above) Blue Bird Hill Barn
En Plein Air
9x12" oils on canvas (above) the historical Hayes House
Park at Harlinsdale Farm in Franklin
Workshop 2020 with guest artist Kathie Odom (above right), with The Chestnut Group and friends
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Amanda horsing around with a cute mini (bottom left)
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Sketch and paint prep: the Hayes House - Park at Harlinsdale Farm
A work in progress...
Composition and value sketch (top), plein air oil painting (left) and finished collection of work in the gallery window of the Downtown Artist Co-op, DAC.
The Andrew Jackson Estate
Horses and Barn
En Plein Air Oil Painting on Canvas 11x14" (above)
Global plein air painting in the rain (top left) at a medieval cathedral; the work in progress shown (bottom center). The Spanish coastline (top center) was inspiration for framed work (right)
Coast of Spain Landscape
En Plein Air Watercolor Painting
on Paper 5x7" (above)
Global plein air painting in Asia (top left) at a garden and temple, the work in progress shown (below left). Puppy with toy (top center) was the inspiration for the painting (right). Still life in oils (center bottom) donated to
The Pet Community Center auction fundraiser.
En Plein Air
Oils on Canvas
Puppy with Toy 11x14" (above)
Plein air oil painting (above top) of a barn as a work in progress and (bottom) a workshop with The Chestnut Group
En Plein Air Oil Painting
Farm Landscape with Cattle 11x14" canvas (above) with the Plein Air Painters of the Southeast (PAP-SE) 2019 workshop.
Lighthouse En Plein Air oil painting (top left), Plein Air South ​website featuring Amanda (top center) prepping for the paint out, and a scenic porch with an American flag in oils (bottom left)
En Plein Air Oils on Canvas
Coastal landscape with palms and trees 11x14" (above) at the 2019 Plein Air South disaster relief fundraiser, art show and workshop
Mickey Mouse phone
oil painting in a pointillism style (top left) and a
nude study (left bottom)
Studio Oil Painting on Canvas
Still life with fruit and European wine jugs 11x14" (above center)
with the painting progression (right)
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Studio Live Figure Drawing
sample: pastels on paper on 18x24" (above)
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Studio Portraiture
oil and mixed media painting on 11x14" canvas (right)
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Studio Portraiture
oil and mixed media painting 11x14" (above left)
with the live model and painting progression (shown in center)
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Studio Painting on Canvas
coastal bust in oils 11x14" (above right)
Studio Portrait Painting on Canvas
oils 16x20" (above left), model and
the painting process example (above center)
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Still Life Painting
modern floral and fruit in acrylics
16x20" canvas (above right)
Open Studio: Model in Oils on Canvas
16x20" (above) 2021 exploring color, light, and brushwork
Fine Artist: Cover art for Wilma! Magazine (above left), exhibited in the Gallery at Lumina for
the NC Coastal Land and Trust fundraiser and featured in the LUMINA newspaper (right).
Amanda with her two greatest supporters (above), her grandmothers.
Close-up of the Floating Bikinis painting exhibited in the Gallery at Lumina (right and above right)
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