Anna Douglas

My paintings are reminders of the mystical elements beneath the surface of everyday life.

The bold, unnatural colors that appear throughout my work act like a filter over natural landscapes. Faces and symbolic forms hover in the sky, and currents of electricity pulse through otherwise ordinary scenes. My hope is to remind others that there is always something more. To wonder, to dream, to never lose sight of life's beautiful mysteries.

Growing up in Phoenix, Arizona during the 1990s, I spent countless summers indoors drawing while immersing myself in every kind of media I could find. Video games, cartoons, experimental films, music, and art became places of exploration, and I found myself consistently drawn toward the surreal. Those early experiences shaped the way I see the world today. Reality has always felt layered, as though another invisible world exists just beyond what we can perceive. My paintings are necessary for me to make sense of these feelings, and I hope they can offer inspiration to others too.

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan

Self-taught with apprenticeship-based training.