Amy Henry Centola

Amy Henry Centola is a New Orleans–based visual artist whose work explores beauty, storytelling, and emotional connection through narrative painting, drawing, and collage. Inspired by the rhythms of everyday life, her paintings transform ordinary objects, interiors, and environments into atmospheric spaces filled with memory, movement, and emotion. Rooted in observation and intuition, her work prioritizes mood and narrative over strict realism, inviting viewers to experience wonder in unexpected places.

Centola’s early background was in graphic design. She founded her own line of children’s apparel, stationery, and invitations featuring her illustrations. Elements of those playful and design-driven beginnings continue to influence her visual language and compositions today. She works with paint, paper, drawing tools, and mixed media.

Centola received her BFA from Louisiana State University and later studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in New Orleans at Gallery Orange, where she presented her solo exhibition Lost in Thought, and at Academy of the Sacred Heart, where she presented her solo exhibition Eavesdropping. Her work has also been shown at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts Gallery and appears in private collections across the country.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Centola continues to draw inspiration from the city’s layered history, visual culture, and sense of poetry found in everyday life.