Anna Todaro

http://ohdivine.com/

Bio

Born: 1981, Chicago Illinois Anna currently lives and works in her studio in Portland, Oregon.

I started painting in High School. I think I was always afraid of how hard I thought painting was and then one day I think someone decided to turn on the painting button.

I have a BFA in paint from Northern Illinois University, 2004.

According to my family, I have always had a hyper active imagination spending much time lost in my own dream world. I've spent most of my life doing what I'm doing right now living in my own world and in a lot of ways I think I am very much the same person I was when I was five but with the intuition and experiences of someone who is older

I am always pushing myself to grab onto the light and fly with it, to fall into the rests, and to let it be to Serendipity.

I also am finding that the less I think the closer I get too and the more I enjoy the dream world and the other worlds around me.

Statement

My paintings are notes from not so distant memories of what I have heard called a Primitive Future.

A current short list from the really long list of artists who inspire me and who are influencing my work includes Michael Thomas, Marcel Duchamp, Andreas Fischer, Bjork, Michaelangelo, and Jesse Reno.

A few people have said that my paintings are a cross between Jim Henson and Georgia O'Keeffe and/or Jim Henson with a Vagina.

My painting process has a lot to do with light I give a great deal of consideration to how the light is going to reflect through each color according to the colors underneath.

I also take great care to ensure the colors I use are of a lightfastness that will remain that lightfast for the longest amount of time possible.

I also take into consideration that of which each pigment is made, whether bone, metal, coal, and/or earth its heat, its opacity, its time, and its place as an element when deciding its place in order of other colors' places on the surface.

I give a lot of consideration to light and color.

I might even go as far as saying aside from music light and color are the closest tools to the language of which I attempt taking notes.