Fine artist and digital photographer, Anna Porter, specializes in watercolors, acrylic and mixed media paintings, florals, landscapes, nature photography, and wedding photography in the Pacific Northwest. Her studio, formerly located in Lake Oswego, Oregon, relocated to Shelton, Washington in 2019, where the artist continues to pursue her passion for photography and painting.
Most Recent Exhibit and Award:
29th Annual Peninsula Art Association Spring Art Show
Shelton Civic Center
525 W Cota St
Shelton, Washington 98584
April 8 to 12, 2019
Apple Blossoms, Best in Show - Photography Category
Previous Solo Exhibit:
Oct 20 to Nov 16, 2016
Welcome to my website ! My name is Anna Porter. I am a fine artist, digital photographer, gardener, and nature lover.
My specialties include:
● floral and landscape paintings and photography
● wedding photography: wedding portraits, wedding photojournalism, artistic wedding photography, classic wedding photography
● portrait paintings
My favorite subjects are beautiful flowers (roses are my favorite), the stunning landscapes, forests and gardens of the Pacific Northwest, and portraits.
Artist Statement
I developed a love of nature growing up in beautiful northeastern Ontario and a love of photography in high school. After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1980, I worked in the advertising high technology industry, and relocated to the United States in 1982. I met my husband in California, where we were married in 1988. In 1991, we decided to relocate to the Pacific Northwest just before our daughter was born. I began painting watercolors in art therapy in 1994, and I have been painting ever since. I am most content with a paint brush or my digital camera in my hand - hours fly by like minutes. Painting and photography help me connect to my surroundings and my subjects, and to express myself in a way that I once thought was beyond my capabilities. I have been working as a professional fine artist and digital photographer since 2007.
I learned how to paint using watercolor as my only medium. While some artists consider watercolor unforgiving and difficult, I love surprises! I love the way that the water and paint effortlessly flow across the paper, creating unique surprises within my painting. Although I have since branched out to embrace other media like gouache, fluid acrylic, and pastel, watercolor remains my favorite medium. I am a purist at heart, preferring bright, pure colors like those in the piece above titled "fiji dreams", which was inspired by a dream of the island of Fiji, and flowers from annasgardens, my artist gardens.
I am happiest when I am painting outside, at one with nature. Much of the artwork that is featured on my website, Anna Porter Artist, and my photography that is available for purchase on Fine Art America and Mobile Prints was done outside "en plein aire" in the Pacific Northwest. Since it rains frequently here, I carry my digital camera with me everywhere and I frequently finish my paintings in my studio.
Currently I am experimenting with watercolor and mixed media to add textural details to my paintings of flowers, leaves, trees, rocks, rivers, streams, sunlight, patterns, pathways, birds and animals, and landscapes. My hope is that my paintings and digital photography will make you stop for a moment and notice the beauty that surrounds us in nature, and that you will enjoy a brief respite from the hectic pace of life that we all face today.
I hope you enjoy looking at my art as much as I did creating it. If you would like to purchase a painting or photograph, or if you have any questions about a particular piece of art, please feel free to email me. Private viewings of my artwork and studio visits are available by appointment. Many of my original paintings for sale here on my website are available as fine art prints in my online gallery on Fine Art America . You can also purchase prints of some of my Instagram-featured photography on MobilePrints.
I look forward to talking to you.
Contact: [email protected]
Website: annaporterartist.com
Fine Art America Gallery: annaporter.fineartamerica.com
MobilePrints Gallery: annaporter.mobileprints.com
