I’m Amanda Medeiros, the artist behind Remnant Muse.

I was raised in Big Lake, Alaska, surrounded by nature’s extremes and emotional turbulence. My youth was marked by mental health struggles and a family dynamic that taught me both love and instability. I started creating when I was young because I didn’t know how to say what I felt. Art gave shape to the intangible. It helped me link the storm inside to something that could reach the outside world.

I moved around with my mom after my parents divorced. We lived in Anchorage, Alaska then Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. I moved back to Big Lake and the surrounding area at 18. My late teens and early 20s were defined by difficult loss, hard life lessons, and constant change.

At 23, I moved to Washington state. My time there had its high points and low points. I established a career, began to try to establish myself as an artist. I thrived professionally. Other aspects of my life were constantly painful. My personal relationships were tumultuous, and my living situation was fluid at best.

At 29, everything I had been trying to build outside of my career crumbled. I felt lost and broken as a person and buried myself in my job. I made more questionable choices, but that eventually led me back to Alaska at 31.

I moved to Fairbanks to be close to my mom again, and my youngest sister. I did not, however, land on my feet when I arrived.

Through it all, I’ve been painting. Writing. Creating. Even when I couldn’t explain what I was feeling, my art could. Even when I felt my struggles were too much of a burden to share with words, I would pour my soul onto a canvas or into a notebook. When one outlet felt too stagnant or too painful, I would transition into another form that felt more consistent with my state.

I’ve worked demanding jobs and I’ve burned myself out in management roles. I’ve dissociated through productivity and drowned in silence. And still… something in me kept reaching toward beauty, toward connection, toward meaning.

My search for connection has taken me through unreal places and dark corners. But it’s also brought me home.
I’m building a life from the ground up now, quite literally.

In 2024, I married the love of my life. We bought a home. We had our daughter. I became a stepmother to an amazing 6-year-old. And for the first time, I stepped away from the corporate grind comfortably and without guilt to follow something more personal: My art. My truth. My voice.

My hopes now are simple, but deep.

I want to support my daughter. I want her to feel how full and vibrant life can be. I want to take pride in myself, to honor what I’ve come through and the roles I choose in this world. My husband, Bruce, has given me the strength to leap into this dream. I’m doing it, finally, on my own terms.

Remnant Muse is what’s left after surviving. It’s the echo of every second leading to transmutation. It’s where I make sense of life’s layered mess through color, texture, and story. It is my expression rooted in what matters to me most. It is the revival of all the inspiration breathing lovingly in my ear.

Our lives are pieces of thought and memory, strung together to form beautifully messy individual experiences. Each of us is just trying to find our harmony in the chaos.

If you’ve ever felt too much, or not enough - if you’ve struggled to name what hurts or what heals - you’re not alone.

You may find pieces of yourself here. In the colors, the words, the layers. In this journey of becoming.

Welcome.