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Angela Anderson is an artist from Russellville, Arkansas, USA. She grew up in Palm Springs, California and moved to Arkansas in 1991 after graduating college with an Honors Art Degree from Arizona Western College in Yuma. She has been painting professionally and teaching art classes for over 17 years.
She and her husband, Mark, have three boys. Painting has given her the opportunity to stay home with them which she finds very rewarding. She is also active in the women's and fine arts ministries at their church, Fellowship of Christians.
Angela participates in several regional art shows & competitions each year. She has work represented at galleries throughout Arkansas and Oklahoma. Most recently, she was selected for inclusion in the 2009 Arkansas Artist Calendar published by the Governor's Mansion Association.
Paris 2004 ~ Amazing!!!
Art has been a life long love. I think I have been hooked on color since I got my first large box of crayons and rearranged them according to hue. I'm still playing with colors today, only now it's with acrylics. I feel very fortunate to have found something fulfilling to devote my time and energy to from such a young age. I pursued an education in art through college but shortly after graduation became pregnant with our first child.
We moved to Arkansas in 1991 and I became involved in decorative arts painting. While my decorative painting career kept me very busy and allowed me to stay home with my kids, I became increasingly frustrated with the limitations on my creativity and the repetitiveness of the painting process. So, in 2000, I decided to take a break and regroup.
It took me a few years to find a new direction for my art, but after an amazing two-week visit to France in 2004, I became inspired to paint again. This time I focused strictly on canvases and found a style I immediately fell into. I think it is a cross between two of my favorite types of art, Impressionism & Realism. My years of decorative painting have helped me tremendously with the technical skills I lacked in college. I consider them years of training, kind of like a musician learning scales before being let loose to perform and compose. I feel such a freedom when I paint now. I can't really explain it.
The subjects I choose for my paintings are usually found in nature. I am fascinated with the amazing colors and details that God has put into His creations. I love exploring His "art" and rendering my own version of it. My goal is to convey that sense of beauty and joy of discovery onto the canvas. I find the need to bring order to my paintings by simplifying the subjects. It narrows my focus onto the part of my subject that I find most pleasing or interesting. By doing this I can take out background distractions and see things more clearly. It's part of my personality to want to organize things, so I guess it makes sense that I do that with my paintings. Hopefully, the resulting images offer a reflection of warmth, simplicity and peace.
Angela Anderson
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11
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