Amy Zerner, Collage Artist, Designer, Author, Astrologer - East Hampton, N.Y. Usa

    Amy Zerner's portrait


Amy Zerner: The many talents of a remarkable woman

Sacred, visionary art, created by Amy Zerner

The wonderful collage of Amy Zerner

 Another beautiful collage of Amy Zerner

BPP: Identity: Who are you?  And who you really are?

Amy Zerner: I am a collage artist, and I live in East Hampton, NY. I worked with many materials, fabrics, trims, and embellishments. As a designer and an author for over 30 years, I have always  been drawn to multi-cultural myths. My talents became rooted in the healing process of envisioning wearable art pieces of jewelry and fashion that can protect and affirm, so I incorporate traditional spiritual stories and symbols to convey those qualities. I have studied metaphysics for several decades and have written many popular books and oracles with my husband, Monte Farber, so there is a lot of meaning in my designs. We have sold 2.000.000 books in 14 languages.

 Amy creates her unique collages

 "The Tarot Discovery Kit" by Amy Zerner & Monte Farber

 One of the book of  Amy Zerner & Monte Farber 

Amy Zerner and her husband Monte Farber

I show my one-of-a-kind fashions at Bergdorf Goodman in NYC. All of my pieces are made with love, creativity and innovation to accentuate the beauty of the woman’s true essence, designed to evoke magical powers to lift one’s spirits and flatter one’s figure. Combining line, texture and form, metaphysics, plus my gift for intuitive readings of people, I work to create power pieces that embody dreams and magic. 

 Amy Zerner's portrait

 Patterns & textiles of Amy Zerner's collection

 More beautiful blue & purple colours for Amy's creations

One of Amy Zerner's handmade caftans 

for Bergdorf Goodman's show on January 2012

Amy while working on her wonderful caftans

Red & black burn-out velvet flower jacket w/tassel scarf/belt & beaded trim

 in Bergdorf's Evening Dept 

BPP: If you could say something important to others who were listening, what would you tell them?

Amy Zerner: Peace begins when expectations end.

 Illustration from Monte & Amy's oracle deck "Little Reminders: Love & Relationships"

BPP:  What is your true dream, the one that keeps you up at night and if one day it were to come true you would feel peace and calmness in your heart?

Amy Zerner: My husband Monte Farber and I have been extremely fortunate in being able to find and live our «bliss» together. We are both passionate about bringing spiritual insights, art, creative solutions and intuitive messages to a world that so obviously needs it.

"A healing blanket" tapestry that Amy Zerner created for Dame Elizabeth Taylor's 75th birthday 

By looking within, we can identify our special dreams, learn how to develop our personal creative power, make our base secure, and our dreams real.  This crusade is not a selfish one.  It is the only one justifiable in our time.  Creativity is spirituality.  By realizing and actualizing our creativity we become a spiritual human being, a most glorious occurrence. 


A world populated by such people can only make a paradise of our planet, a dream of the ages that is not only technologically possible at this time, but is crucial to our survival as a species.

"Enchanted Spellboard" by Amy Zerner

BPP: How is life currently for the people in your country and what would you wish for them and for the planet at large?

Amy Zerner: We live in The Now Age; everything has to be done now. Cell phones, fax machines, computers, beepers, and the Internet have destroyed the cushion of time that used to enable us to thoughtfully consider our situations. Now information overload overwhelms and family life seems all but impossible. How can we find and stay on the path to a life of quality and meaning in The Now Age? How can there be time to pray when there’s hardly time to play? We wish for people to be more tolerant of others, more empathetic, less judgmental. To be more mindful of their thought processes. Thoughts are powerful, both positive & negative.

Amy Zerner's Portrait

BPP: If you had a chance to be a child again would you choose the same life?

Amy Zerner: YES! As a child I lived in the country. I was encouraged to be in touch with nature and, as a result, I became a gatherer of magical bits and pieces of rocks, shells, and dried flowers, which I would incorporate or sew into my early artworks. Since I was little, I was encouraged to be in touch with my mystical side. Even now, each time I create a piece of art, I sing into it, or “enchant” it to help further empower it’s healing gifts. This attention and respect makes both the art and the artist happy.

Silver tarot, goddess and astrology jewlery on Peggy

Silver tarot & goddess jewlery on Peggy

BPP:  What was the exact moment that you realized what you wanted to do with your life?  How did you feel at this very moment?

Amy Zerner: My first memory is sitting on the knee of my maternal grandfather, Clayton Spicer, painting leaves on the trees of one of his paintings. “Claytie,” as we called him, was a masterful painter who had studied at The Art Students League in New York City with Robert Henri, author of The Art Spirit and the founder of the Ashcan School of American art.

My mother, Jessie Spicer Zerner, also an artist and children’s book illustator, told me that she never had to worry about me being a bored or lonely child because I was quite content to be alone and, though she was always coming up with projects for us to do together, I was also happy to sit by myself and draw, color, paint, do crafts.

For this and many other reasons, I cannot think of a time when I did not think of an artist.

I count my blessings!

 Great Illustrations for the book: "The Dream Quilt"

The stories of this book are by Jessie Spicer Zerner, Amy's mother and collaborator

More illustrations from the book " The Dream Quilt", a collaboration of Amy Zerner 

& her mother Jessie Spicer Zerner

Mother & daughter Zerner

BPP: Would you like to tell us something we didn’t ask until now?

Amy Zerner: I’m an Aries Sun, Moon in Libra, Scorpio Rising. (we are astrologers, too)

Amy's drawing for BPProject

If you want to learn more about Amy Zerner, visit:
www.AmyZerner.com

You can find the book " The Dream Quilt" written by Jessie Spicer Zerner & illustrated by Amy Zerner at:
http://www.theenchantedworld.com/productshowcase/productshowcase.php?Subpage_ID=15&Product_Detail=1&Product_ID=4024&Ecards


You can find also the book " The Enchanted Birthday Book" Amy wrote with her husband Monte Farber as a Main Selection from One Spirit:


http://www.onespirit.com/pages/product/productDetail.jsp?skuId=1063395511&OSID=SPT1015SC1ENCHANTEDBIRTHDAYBOOK


Or you can find her Tarot Deck at:

http://www.theenchantedworld.com/productshowcase/productshowcase.php?Subpage_ID=15&Product_Detail=1&Product_ID=1&Ecards

Photos © by Monte Farber. All rights reserved.