Angela M. Otwell

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I’m Angela Micheli Otwell, sometimes artist, sometimes poet, sometimes blogger, sometimes musician, daily cook (occasionally inspired), lover of a good God, good food, good times, fine wines, nature, truth, and beauty.

While I won’t hesitate to use my camera to capture an image and occasionally venture into other media, I truly love picking up a brush, loading it up with paint, and covering a canvas with color. I love the variety of effects I can get with acrylic paints and the wide range of colors available. When it is finished, the painting reflects only what I put there, nothing more, nothing less. Each new painting is a whole new adventure, a new story, and does not need to bear any relationship to the last painting or the next one. Other materials I have worked with have felt more limiting to me.

When I create, I feel I am close to my Creator, and there’s no place I’d rather be. When things are going well, I am almost completely un-self-conscious, completely unaware of me. In that peace, I dance before God as my brush dances on the canvas. When things are going not so well, God is the first one to whom I cry for help. It’s all a kind of prayer for me.

Though I am sometimes inspired to create challenging or disturbing images, I return again and again to trying to portray the serenity and tranquility that the creative process gives me, trying to pass it on to the viewer. I believe that God made each of us to experience that peace and un-self-consciousness.

I hope that viewers of my work might, for a moment, get a taste of the eternal, that they might be reminded that there is someone bigger than our selves, bigger than our problems even, that they feel inspired to join the dance.

You can get to know me better by visiting my website:

www.amopage.com