Amanda Fullerton was born in Orlando, Florida.  As a child, she was always drawing.  She  won first and second place prizes when she was six for a Christmas contest to design the cover of a newsletter for Mutual Benefit Life in Newark, New Jersey.  At 12, she began taking oil painting lessons from Lydia Quick of the Windermere Art Gallery in Florida.  At 16, she was the youngest artist hired to draw portraits at Walt Disney World.  Later, she also drew portraits at Sea World.  Amanda received Bachelor and Master degrees in geology.  She continued to take some art classes while in college, but found life after college to be very busy and difficult to keep up the artwork. 

Following raising her two sons, Amanda began painting again.  She has studied under several world-renowned artists, including: Fred Graff, Frank Francese, Robert Burridge, Tom Lynch and Alvaro Castagnet.  She has been accepted into many juried shows in Florida and Georgia and displays/sells her work at galleries and shops in north Georgia and western North Carolina.

Now, living in Hayesville, North Carolina, Amanda paints full-time.  She lives with her husband, Tod, and dog, Klauser.