About

Escher Paul Amadio
b. 1999, Atlanta, GA · Lives and works in Washington, DC

Escher Paul Amadio is an artist based in Washington, DC, working primarily in pen and ink and colored pencil.

Escher is autistic and speaks in short phrases. Drawing is where he says the most. His work spans wildlife, architecture, interiors, still life, sculpture, and surreal compositions, built from patient hatching and cross-hatching that gives each subject weight, texture, and light. He moves easily between precise realism and imaginative abstraction: a carefully observed barn owl on one page, an impossible staircase or a cubist face on the next.

His portfolio includes more than 140 drawings and continues to grow.