As a young artist, Amy Dobbs has had an impressive first fifteen years in the art world. Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1970, she has studied in the US and Europe and now makes her home in Nimes, the South of France, where she moved in 1995. While in high school, she received the Congressional Award for High School Art Students as well as the A.J. Fletcher Scholarship to study art at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C.

Dobbs works in oil on either linen or wood panels that she prepares with a rabbit skin gesso and paints "live" in front of the subject believing that "nature is our best teacher." Dobbs is a formidable realist painter, equally skilled in landscape, still life and portrait with an extraordinary ability with color.