Here are several newspaper articles where Amy's passion, artwork and inspiration are presented:

- Wildlife paintings gain drama with new technique, by Lana Michelin, Red Deer Advocate, Alberta, May 2009

- Nature captured in Sylvan artist's work, by Mark Weber, Red Deer Express, Alberta, May 2009

- Wildlife artist dedicates work to father, by Brian Dunning, Ontario, August 2004

- Inspired Art, by Terry Bush, The Shield, Ontario, April 2006

•  Wildlife paintings gain drama with new technique

By Lana Michelin - May 19, 2009 (Red Deer Advocate)

Central Alberta -  Amy Keller-Rempp finishes a landscape of wolves on a set of moose antlers near other pieces she has created in her home studio near Sylvan Lake.  Photo by Randy Fiedler/Advocate

Amy Keller-Rempp discovered there’s more than one way to paint wildlife.

The Red Deer area artist started out with the hyper-realistic, paint-every-hair style that won her praise as a teenager from famed wildlife artist Robert Bateman, but these days elicits yawns from many gallery owners.

Keller-Rempp heard too many artists are doing wildlife realism and the style has largely been devalued by mass-market prints.

So what’s a wildlife artist to do? Keller-Rempp tried her hand at a looser style of painting in which she attempts to capture the characteristics of the animals — the strength and energy of running horses, the stealth and mystery of wolves — and suddenly, people are becoming interested in her work.

The 27-year-old said she’s had canvases accepted in the Calgary Stampede art gallery, as well as Edmonton’s Klondike Days. An aboriginal gallery in Edmonton is also interested in carrying her paintings.

“I let myself free with big brush strokes. People are responding better and I love it,” said Keller-Rempp, who believes her larger, looser paintings contain more movement, vitality and “drama” than her formerly painstakingly detailed ones.

They take less time to complete and therefore command more affordable prices — less than $1,000 for a large canvas, compared with the more than $2,000 she was charging for realistic paintings that each took a month or more to finish.

It’s just the latest evolution of an artistic career that for Keller-Rempp started on her family’s large and remote acreage northwest of Ottawa, near Bon Echo Provincial Park.

“I grew up hunting and fishing and just appreciating nature and wildlife,” she recalled. It was the mystery and “spirit” of bears, deer, wolves and owls that made them fascinating subject matter for her paintings.

Keller-Rempp’s mother, who was half Mohawk, was a school secretary. Her father, Dale, was a pipeline worker who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when his daughter was only seven.

As a result, Keller-Rempp’s childhood and adolescence was a tough time for the family, financially and emotionally. She and her two sisters found it hard watching their strong, independent father gradually lose his abilities, and Keller-Rempp turned to art as escapism from the stress and sadness.

She completed many commissioned animal paintings as well as murals at her school and on the walls of area businesses. She painted animal scenes on long saw blades, and on antlers and pelts.

Once, when Robert Bateman was making a public appearance at the nearby provincial park, Keller-Rempp’s sister seized one of her paintings and pushed her way through the crowd to ask the artist’s opinion on it.

Keller-Rempp was thrilled when Bateman responded that he never would have thought the painting had been done by a 16-year-old. He confirmed that she should follow an artistic career path.

Keller-Rempp later took an “intense” year-long visual art course at Sir Stanford Fleming College in Haliburton, Ont., to expand her painting techniques.

But when her debilitated father committed suicide in 2004, she sank into a deep depression.

“I was always praying and believing every day that eventually he would walk and get better, and have a normal and happy life.”

Again it was her art and the support of family friends that helped her to heal. Keller-Rempp also credits her French-born husband, Antoine Rempp, for helping reignite her artistic interest.

She now believes she has a God-given talent that she’s supposed to share with others.

The artist, who moved to Red Deer last fall, has donated dozens of paintings to good causes, including multiple sclerosis and animal preservation charities.

She’s also expanding her interest in animals into other areas, including airbrushed pet portraits. These can be incredibly life-like without requiring the near-pointalistic technique of animal realism, said Keller-Rempp, who feels things are lining up in her favour.

For example, her husband told her about the Calgary Stampede’s early January art submission deadline just before Christmas — and just before her in-laws were due to visit from France. “I thought there’s no way I can get any paintings done on time,” she recalled.

But her husband and his parents cooked, cleaned and took over care of their animals to allow her four days of uninterrupted painting time. When the Stampede officials called to say they were accepting her work, Keller-Rempp recalled thinking, “Oh, my God, it’s a miracle!”

• Nature captured in Sylvan artist's work

By Mark Weber - May 06, 2009 (Red Deer Express)

Amy Keller-Rempp has an astonishing gift for capturing the nuances of wildlife in her exquisite art.

Originally from Ontario, Keller-Rempp, 27, and her husband moved to Central Alberta last fall and now live near Sylvan Lake.

Her paintings, inspired from the wonders and endless mystique of wildlife are extraordinary in detail, colour and mood.

She calls her ability a gift from God.

“I just see it in my head and do it. I’ve always been able to do that,” she explains.

Part of her inspiration flows from her mother and her late father, who passed away in 2004 after a prolonged battle with multiple sclerosis. Keller-Rempp said pouring herself into her art helped her deal with the stress of her dad’s illness over the years.

“I think if I hadn’t had to deal with my dad being sick I maybe would have gotten side-tracked and gotten off the course of painting in my teenage years,” she says reflectively. “But it was the driving force. He always told me I’d be famous one day, and he really encouraged me,” she says with a smile. “He’s still pushing me, even though he’s not here. This is a dedication to him.”

She also credits her First Nations ancestry (Mohawk) with giving her the love and respect for nature she holds so passionately.

She’s been avidly studying animals, art and photography over the years to refine her skills and talent too.

Wildlife were always near her home growing up in the country where deer, bear, moose and even elk were often spotted.

“Most of my paintings are taken from real life experinces.”

It was also apparent even in childhood Keller-Rempp had an extraordinary skill. After high school, she embarked on a post-secondary art course in Peterborough. It was an intensive course, mostly hands-on creating and little in the way of classroom study.

“The instructors basically told me ‘You know, Amy, don’t waste your time. Just go and paint’,” she says with both a chuckle and complete humility.

Not long after, her sister ran into acclaimed artist Robert Bateman at a provincial park one day.

“I was working there as a gate attendant. My sister approached him with several photos of my work and he took about 10 minutes to look at them. He thought I was 35 years old. He said ‘Tell her to keep going – she’s got a great future ahead of her’,” she recalls.

Since then, it’s been a journey of capturing an array of natural images via her amazing artwork.

Her pieces are rich in detail yet often convey a dream-like feel to them. “I’ve always been stuck between two worlds – realism and fantasy.

Ultimately, it’s unimaginable that she would point her energies in any other direction.

“I have loved and respected the outdoors and animals for as long as I can remember,” she writes on her web site. “This tremendous love has enticed me to capture on canvas the beauty of our earth and the creatures that roam it. My goal is to share that beauty with others.”

Meanwhile, the future is indeed bright for this talented young woman. Her art has been accepted by the Calgary Stampede Gallery jury for this summer, and she’ll also have some work featured at Edmonton’s Capital EX. She also supports a number of charitable causes with her work, including the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.

Gallery IS and House Warmings in Red Deer have also featured her works.

For more information, check out www.amykeller.com. 

• Wildlife artist dedicates work to father

By Brian Dunning - August 6, 2004 (Land O'Lakes Sun)

Bon Echo Park - Amy Keller holds her prized painting "White Spirit" dedicated to her father who imparted his love of the outdoors and wildlife to Amy, which is why the original painting is not for sale. Her attention to detail stems from the desire to make her work, "as realistic as possible."

Bon Echo Park - Amy Keller inherited her father's love of the outdoors and as such is dedicating her artistic talents to his memory. Amy's wildlife paintings are a reflection of some of Canada's best known wildlife artists. She was one of the many artists who showed her works at this year's Bon Echo Park Art Exhibition.

Amy hails from Denbigh and realized at an early age she had a talent for painting. She amazed her family and friends when, at the age of 10, she produced her first work of art. For the past 12 years she has been working on improving her, "gift from God."

Earlier this year Amy's father died suddenly, after battling Multiple Sclerosis, (MS) for years. Despite his afflection Mr. Keller instilled in his daughters a love of nature. Amy said her father had a great impact on her, supporting her while passing on his knowledge of animals and nature. She said when she showed her father a sketch of a painting she planned to do of a bear in a tree, he informed she was using the wrong kind of tree. He took her out into the woods and explained the different types of trees bears would most likely climb. Given Amy's attention to detail, that was important information.

Amy said she plans to "keep going for him" and will be donating some of her paintings to MS to auction off to raise funds. However, there is one original painting she plans on keeping. Entitled "White Spirit," it is a painting of a wolf's head, which she started a week before her father's death. She said it will be a reminder of how proud her father was of her. "He was a huge inspiration. 'I'll never give up."

Dedication to their father's memory runs in the family. Amy's younger sister Kerri-Anne having raised $1,200 in pledges took part in the MS Bikathon held recently in London.ON. Amy says the family believes, "people must do something to help (the fight against MS)."

• Inspired Art

April 28, 2006 (The Shield)

Amy Keller shows off her painting "White Spirit" that she painted in memory of her father, one of the people who inspired her in her artistic endeavours. Photo: Terry Bush

Flinton - Denbigh artist Amy Keller's paintings are a fixture each year at the Land O' Lakes Trappers exhibition in Flinton and it's easy to see why. Her passion for wildlife is evident as one passes her exhibit in the centre of the hall. Deer, bear, wolves and elk jump right off the canvas. Painting since the age of ten, Amy mentions her parents and her art teacher Colin Edwards at North Addington Education Centre as her inspiration. "Colin bas critiqued my art over the years and has helped with everything you see here. Now, he looks at my paintings and has nothing critical to say."
She spent her high school years painting murals for special occasions like Remembrance Day as well as decorating the hallways. Summers were spent painting as well, doing murals on buildings in local communities as part of a student job work program. After high school, she went on to take a one year course through Sir Sanford Fleming's School of Fine Art in Haliburton.

One of her paintings displayed at the show, her signature work "White Spirit" was done in memory of her father who passed away two years ago. Along with her mother, he was one of her heroes. Painting, as Amy puts it, "Has been a stress reliever over the years, while growing up with a father-with MS". Amy likes to give back to the community as well donating a painted beaver hide to Ducks Unlimited in Napanee and a painted moose horn to Ducks Unlimited in Ottawa for raffle as well.

"Painting on beaver hides and moose horns might be considered controversial," says Amy, "But I grew up in this area, I hunt and fish and l'm used to being around hides.
My grandfather is a native from Tyendinaga.

We might as well use all parts of the animal." Last year was especially exciting for Amy as a number of her prints were chosen to be used as Christmas cards by the Ontario Wildlife Foundation. This year she will be contacting the World Wildlife Fund to see if they'd like to use the tiger painting that was in her exhibit as part of their promotional material. For more information about Amy's work, check out her website at www.amykeller.com