Portsmouth Artist's Painting Chosen for This Year's Amica Insurance Thanksgiving Card

The ephemeral beauty of nature is captured succinctly in “Fall Reflection,” an oil painting of leaves floating on water.

It depicts a moment of time that happens just briefly each fall, when the brightly-colored leaves have yet browned and can float on the water in splendorous color. It isn’t long before those leaves are washed away, sink and lose those yellow, red, orange flames.

“This painting represents a special time when the leaves have just begun to fall,” said painter Amy Bartlett Wright. “The trees are still beautiful, but they’ve reached their peak, and in a few days the water will be covered with leaves.”

The Portsmouth native’s painting will soon be in the hands of more than 730,000 customers of Amica Insurance in the form of a Thanksgiving Card. She was selected to be the artist for this year’s card, which has become an annual tradition for the insurance company for 44 years.

“I’m honored to be chosen as the artist for Amica’s Thanksgiving card,” Bartlett Wright said. “It’s a uniquely American holiday that celebrates family. The holiday began in New England, and so did Amica.”

“More than four decades ago, we decided that Thanksgiving was the perfect time of year to express our thanks to policyholder families for choosing Amica for their insurance needs,” said Robert A. DiMuccio, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Amica. “It was a simple message back then, and it still is. But it’s a message that has become more and more essential as the years have gone on.”

Amica’s painting got its start while Bartlett Wright was hiking the woodland trails through Norman Bird Sanctuary, one of her favorite places along Narragansett Bay.

Every year, a painting is chosen to appear on the card’s cover, and this year’s selection, titled “Fall Reflection,” offers a quiet fall moment in an oil painting by Amy Bartlett Wright, a Rhode Island illustrator and painter whose work captures her love for the outdoors. Bartlett Wright’s painting was unveiled in a short ceremony on Monday at Amica’s corporate headquarters in Lincoln, and it was hung in the art gallery with past Thanksgiving card paintings.

Watch the artist describe her work and her painting in the three-minute video below: