User:Amel Chamandy/sandbox

Amel Chamandy is an international multidisciplinary ( http://mixtemagazine.ca/en/lifestyle/arts-lifestyle/amel-chamandy-multidisciplinary-artist/)  artist who was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Amel showed an interest in drawing and painting from her very early teens and took numerous classes to improve her drawing skills. Later in life she continued to advance her art education through internships in Florence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence and Paris. Her art instructors believed that a proper artistic/aesthetic training required discipline, understanding and copying the work of masters (Michelangelo,  Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli) as well as,  studying the human body, drawing,  from plaster casts and live models. While in Italy she also took art restauration classes. Back in Montreal she studied photography and Art history at Concordia University. She has since established herself a solid international reputation as an artist/photographer and in the last years her exhibitions have successfully been diversifying into a global market and her work has been collected worldwide. She took part to the Miami Red Dot Art Fair in Miami during the Miami Art Basel. She has done commissioned work in the Caribbean and has sold to private collectors in Gstaad, Oslo and London as well as in the US. She won an art competition in Ocala (http://www.ocalafl.org/COO3.aspx?id=14785), Florida with her sculpture Marie & Jean (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_%26_Jean_by_Amel_Chamandy_04.jpg) in 2014-15

Amel Chamandy lives and works in Montreal.