Welcome to 
Hayletts Studio

Hi I am Amanda a wife and mother of two grown children and pet mom to Olive the sprocker spaniel and squid the black cat. 

Although first of all I am an artist and always have been, it is the blood that runs through my veins, what makes me tick and keeps me sane. 

Art was always there even when I chose a career in health and social care, I managed to weave it into everything I did, enjoying enabling others to enjoy the freedom of paint and creativity.  

And now that I am a little older and wiser I chose to create full time for myself. Allowing myself this freedom has been a great gift of learning and self development, and the story has just begun.

Haylett's Studio, a thatched cob cottage on the Norfolk Broads, is both my home and my place of making. Living here, I am immersed in a landscape of water, sky and shifting light, where the quietness and wildness exist side by side.

My work is an intuitive response to this environment. Rather than depicting the landscape directly, I explore its atmosphere, its stillness, movement , and underlying energy. I seek to capture something felt rather than seen: the shimmer of water, light bouncing through the leaves and the sound of birdsong.

Colour plays a central role in my practice. I use it instinctively and emotionally, allowing it to build, dissolve and re-emerge, creating images that feel both familiar and otherworldly .

 The process is physical and responsive, with each piece evolving through moments of control and release.

At its core my work is about finding the quiet magic in the everyday, where memory and imagination meet.