ANGELA WOODS

email: gallerieswest63@hotmail.com

 

I would like my paintings to invoke a feeling or memory through simple compositions. Everyday objects and scenes can be very poignant. They often tell an extraordinary story.

I take as much pride in my preliminary sketches as in the painting. The negative spaces define the objects and help to achieve the overall effect of the painting.

I an still evolving as an artist. Painting is a phenomenon and it takes a lot of work to keep refining the artist's talent and technique. Although I'm always improving, I'm never completely satisfied. This drives my desire to constantly improve.

What's important for me is to know that there is long term appreciation of my work. I want buyers of my paints to continue to enjoy them long after they have purchased them.

-Angela Woods


Awards / Publications

  • Best of Show and Award of Excellence Salt Lake Community College Art Show 2009
  • Honorable Mention and two paintings juried in Davis County (UT) Statewide Competition 2009
  • Best of Show and Award of Excellence Salt Lake Community College Art Show 2008
  • South Valley Journal Feature article spotlight bio and art (November 2008)
  • Publication (bio) featured in Deseret News: Women in Art (March 2008)
  • Eccles Statewide Competition (UT): two paintings juried in (2008)
  • Eccles Statewide Competition (UT): two paintings juried in (2007)
  • Top Excellence Award and Award of Merit Salt Lake Community College
  • Artists to Watch on utahartists.com
  • Illustrator, A Gathering of Dragons (children’s book)
  • 1984 Los Angeles County Ceramic Tile Mural Award
  • Designed logo and storefront display for Outdoor Outlook
  • 2007 Salt Lake Community College Art Show – Top Excellence Award and Award of Merit
  • 2008 Salt Lake Community College Art Show – Best of Show
  • Fine art displayed at The Art Is In Gallery (Park City) and IAO Gallery (Salt Lake City; solo exposition in May 2008)
  • Honor student (3.9 GPA) at Salt Lake Community College
Skills
  • Interpreting themes, concepts, and story ideas into character designs
  • Characters design and illustration from original concept to finished production drawings
  • Character pose, facial expression, and turnarounds
  • Background/ layout
  • Story boarding
  • Life drawing (human and animals)
  • Color work
  • Sculpting
  • Painting in all mediums
  • Designing creatures and the creepy places they live
  • Ability to work collaboratively
  • Open to direction and able to embrace change

Employment History
  • 1/1982 – 1/1984; Freelance Ceramic Artist, Riverside, CA
  • Designed and painted custom ceramic tile murals for homes and restaurants in Orange County
  • 1/1985 – 12/1985; Art Director
Colorflow Corporation, Corona, CA 
  • Designed tile murals for San Francisco restaurants and showrooms
  • Designed canister set sold at JC Penny, New York City and distributed nationally
  • 1/1999 – present; owner/artist
Woods WildThings LaVerkin, UT/Herriman, UT
  • Illustrated children’s books
  • Tile design
  • Designed/produced/marketed "coloring book" style posters of wildlife scenes
  • Decorative wreath production
  • Set design
  • Greeting card design/production
  • 9/1999 – 2/2000; Art Instructor
Red Rock School; St. George, UT 
  • Taught art to disadvantaged and emotionally challenged students
10/2007 – 12/2007; Set Designer
  • Location and set design for children’s program series produced by a major California studio

04/2009 – Worlds of the Crystal Moon : Book 2

  • Salt Lake Community College – AAS in Animation/ Illustration Program; Graduated May 2009