My new series of drawings, ‘Brace Embrace’ is a specially commissioned collection of ten individual drawings (60x50cm each in pastel pencil on paper). The series is exhibited in a group show, (M)otherhood at Byrne Contemporary, in Itchenor West Sussex, alongside paintings by Ghislaine Howard and Daisy Rogers-Byrne, and sculpture by Lisa Stevenson.

Brace Embrace explores my evolving relationship with motherhood as my children grow. The series of ten coloured line drawings captures intimate moments with them alongside self-portraits depicting rest, despair and resilience. Inspired by religious frescoes of grief, reverence and contemplation, the work conveys the simultaneous gentleness and existential intensity of mothering—wearisome, tender, oppressive, and ecstatic.

Narrative show

(M)otherhood at Byrne Contemporary, West Sussex - 6 September to 3 November 2025

NEW GALLERY:

I am joining a new gallery in Wiltshire, and taking part in their Autumn Show.

‘Seasons of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness’, a group exhibition at MADE in the Pewsey Vale from 11 - 20 September 2025

I’m featured in How To Spend It magazine in the Financial Times: top 18 family-friendly gifts.

Commissions from £500 - get in touch by email.

CHARITY AUCTION

My work was shown alongside Maggi Hambling, Paula Rego and Antony Gormley, among others, in September 2021. Liquid Core, 2018, 70x50cm, was donated to the charity auction raising money for a much needed hydrotherapy pool for The Beehive, a treatment centre for adults with profound disabilities.

Exhibition 21-23 Sept 2021. Auction 23rd Sept 2021.
www.picturesforthebeehive.org.uk

“I was delighted to be asked to donate a picture to this charity and for such a worthwhile cause. The work I'm donating is part of a series exploring my experience of caring for children, and seemed an appropriate piece to offer for the auction. One of my children has learning difficulties and this series on motherhood began as a way of processing and celebrating the particular challenge of caring for a child with special needs. The term special needs has a bitter-sweet ring to it, and in any context, however 'special' the needs, caring can be the hardest job and also the most rewarding.”

I wrote a piece about my cancelled Cornish exhibition for Unison Pastels.

You can read it here…

Motherhood: An Exhibition

Read about the work

Amy Shuckburgh and Arabella Brooke

at Olympia Auctions, 25 Blythe Road

Monday 11th - Sunday 17 February 2019

In Conversation: Wednesday 13th February 6-9pm

Amy Shuckburgh In Conversation with writer Clover Stroud discussing Motherhood and Creativity. Tickets available to buy in advance, for charity West London Action for Children.

My portrait of Harold Pinter was officially gifted by Lady Antonia Fraser to the The Harold Pinter Theatre, London, on 14th February 2019 (Valentine’s Day)

The portrait is on permanent display in the Moonlight Bar.

Read here about painting Harold Pinter