AMBER BOARDMAN

MY WORK IS HEAVILY INFLUENCEDby my background as an American child of the 1980s who grew up on cartoons and animations like The Far Side and Looney Toons. My training is in painting, but for years I was sequencing my paintings into animated films and public art installations.

I’ve also worked in animation commercially, and I think working at Cartoon Network’s has influenced the way I’m painting these days. – one of the first shows I worked on – had these hillbilly squid characters with tentacles we could draw into infinite