A mindful and detailed look reveals eight values, which Amy considers vital in human relationships:  compassion, kindness, respect, understanding, patience, tolerance, gentleness, and forgiveness.

“In this series of watercolours The Contemplations, I exemplify the unique qualities of the watercolour medium: its luminosity and transparency. I use colour, simple geometric shapes and the technique of ‘glazing’ by overlaying multiple layers (sometimes up to 10) of thin watercolours to create depth and luminosity in the work. When viewers take time to gaze into the art, they are invited into a meditative and spiritual experience. The aim is to evoke viewers into their inner sacredness.”

The focus of Amy Loewan’s work is on the promotion of peace and understanding.  She has devoted herself to this project for over thirty years.  Her universal message of peace and her aesthetic sensibility imbue her large installation works and smaller rice paper weave, mixed media works with a quiet purpose.  They are highly crafted presentations of a social and spiritual belief.  She submits that peace, within us and with others, can be attained through acts of consciousness initiated by art.

Amy’s exploration into innovative ways to use traditional art materials - rice paper and ink – foster the exploration of her considerations for a compassionate, caring world.  The impact of the greater forms and their focused text naturally lead into a closer and more detailed seeing.  The sheets of woven paper literally interweave, they allow for movement within as well as without, they offer an experience of peace.

Amy uses many languages including the following, with varying degrees, in her Peace Project works: Arabic, Croatian, Chinese, Cree, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Malagasy, Malay, Norwegian, Philippine, Punjabi, Polish, Russian, Sanskrit, Swahili, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Zulu.

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In her first profession as an occupational therapist, Amy began a lifelong investment in working with people. Her artistic journey led to the completion of her Master of Fine Arts Degree in painting from the University of Alberta in 1995. Many of her works illustrate the integration of her Chinese heritage with western postmodernist art practices.

Amy has received numerous grants and awards including The Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal's Award for Excellence in the Arts commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Since 1976, Amy has exhibited in major cities in Canada as well as New York, and Melbourne, Australia. Her most recent large rice paper weaving installation A Peace Project was shown in China in 2004 at the Shanghai Doland Modern Art Museum in Shanghai and the Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre in Hong Kong, which is now part of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts collection.  She teaches at the Fine Art Certificate Program of the University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension in Edmonton, Alberta.  Amy was born in Hong Kong.  She immigrated to Canada in 1978 and became a Canadian citizen in 1981.