Amy Massey Studio

My booth at got a nice little refresh for spring 🌸 Thank you for these gorgeous custom print bins. AND, now you can shop my 18” prints there as well!

“Fragmentations”
watercolor and gouache on paper, 11x15

These days it’s a struggle be fully present, mindful, focused. More often that not, my mind feels like a multi-faceted, layered, fragmented maze, often shifting from one thought to the next while struggling to thread it all together. These fragmentations indicate depth and the intricate machineries of our mind… even if they are sometimes messy and infuriating! Here’s to the beautiful chaos of consciousness.

I finished this painting a few weeks ago, and on point to its concept, I totally forgot to share out until now! 😂 Whoops!

Thank you to all of the wonderful people who came through my booth in Atlanta and Chattanooga at and — what a whirlwind of a month it’s been! I love these festivals for the opportunity to connect with so many people and I had such a great time sharing my work with all of you. I was thrilled to see all of these original paintings find the perfect new homes!

I’m back in my studio now getting ready for the next wave — can’t wait to share more soon!

We’re heeeeere! Come visit me at Booth 2 at in Chattanooga. VIP party is tonight, and then we’ll be set up Saturday 10-6 and Sunday 10-5. See you there!!

“The Healing Art of Finding Spaciousness” (triptych)
watercolor and gouache on paper, 14x28, 30x36, 14x28

As I’ve stepped back from practicing massage therapy, I wanted to create a painting that honors its depths. I find massage therapy to be an enormously powerful and restorative practice, and yet I’ve often wrestled with the ego-leaning identity of massage therapist as Healer. While I wholeheartedly believe in the healing power of touch, I have always resonated more with the identity of massage therapist as a vessel or a tool to aid the body’s natural ability to create healing within itself. This painting is an ode to what I found to be the most potent and skillful aspect of massage therapy: the Healing Art of Finding. As a massage therapist, I sought physical adhesions, trigger points, areas of tension and energetic ones, too — subtly sensing the body’s holding patterns and creating space for their unwinding. With gentle guidance, a body can become conscious of its tensions and that awareness invites a softening release. Together, massage therapist and client open into a greater sense of homeostasis, and of Spaciousness. That softening, that transition toward spaciousness is where the real healing takes place.

After pouring many long hours into this triptych at in Asheville’s , I’m so glad to be able to show this special piece for the first time at the in Atlanta, GA! ✨

Hello Atlanta! 🌞 I’m thrilled to be back at on this beautiful weekend. Find me at Booth 52 — Friday 12-7, Saturday 10-7, and Sunday 10-6!

I’ve landed back in my studio after a trip that straddled a major life transition as I step forward from the identity of a part time artist to that of a full time artist. In February I wrapped up my nearly 11 year career as a massage therapist. Becoming a massage therapist changed my life in big, meaningful ways. It slowed me down and taught me how to enter a space of deep physical and metaphysical connection. It honed my senses and sensitivities and taught me to trust my intuition. Most importantly, it taught me to open my heart and hold space for all people. It didn’t matter who was on my table, what their lives had looked like or how their perspectives differed from mine — through massage I learned the art of softening enough to offer love and empathy freely and openly, to care deeply without hesitation or judgement.

Little did I know, this gift of massage therapy became the seed of endless inspiration that bloomed into my artwork. That presence of mind opened the door to many images, feelings and concepts that have become some of my most prominent paintings. It is bittersweet to step away from a career that has served me in so many big ways, but I am more excited than ever for what lies ahead. After many years of working tirelessly and stretching myself oh so thin to get here, my heart skips a beat with elation as I lean solely into the identities of Mother and Artist.

Now, filled with love after a trip to sunny California to visit one of my most favorite humans, I am back home and ready to dive deeply into my studio practice. I have a large triptych in the works that I cannot wait to complete: it’s the perfect ode to the aspects of presence, spaciousness and healing that I treasured most throughout my massage therapy career. I can’t wait to share it with you!

“Solidarity”, watercolor and gouache on paper, 15x22

Here’s to the resistance. To those marching in the streets and protecting their neighbors, to those calling representatives to beg daily for something better, to those organizing, fueling, tending spirits and bodies. Here’s those quietly building strength and those who need to be held. Here’s to choosing to fight in the name of love over hate. We are in this together, in Solidarity.

“Lifted, Uplifting”, watercolor and gouache on paper, 22x30

Behold the grace of being held. The buoyancy of collective uplifting is a thing of magic. Have you felt it? A room woven so lushly with love that support spills and keeps on spilling, flowing and filling until every body is high. A coven of tender mothers tending, iron-clad with the power of trust, of belief, embedded within the bowels of mutuality — the diehard unity of battling for the heart of togetherness. We are lifted and uplifting. We do infinitely more together.

“Bending Toward the Light”, watercolor and gouache on paper, 22x30

2025 held so much polarity, but I grounded myself by looking for the glimmers and the big bright lights: the celebrations, the moments of clarity, the pull of love. All we can do in this complicated life is try our best to bend toward the light.