Anna Pomaska

Artist’s Statement:

I am an artist that has two strong avenues of interest with my work.

          One direction has been my children’s activity books. I have created over one hundred children’s projects for Dover Publications, Grosset and Dunlap, and other major publishers.

            I have always created the children’s work with the desire to inspire interest and joy in children and to empower them by kindling their own creativity and ability.

            At the Yates House Community Arts Center, illustrations from these books are available in signed and numbered art print editions as well as customized prints with your child’s name or initials as part of the image.

            My other artistic direction has been photography, although I have always seen my photography as an extension of my drawing and painting ability. Before my use of the computer, I usually hand colored, drew on, collaged or manipulated my photographs in some way. Digital imaging and the Photoshop program has been a natural evolution of my work and has given me tremendous freedom in creating both new imagery and

re-envisioning older pieces.

            Much of my work is conceived with spiritual, ecological and political ideas, but some of it comes from a place of childhood – partly because I have been creating the children’s activity books for many years, and partly because I believe that early vision is the truest seeing.

            My artistic intention is to give evidence of multi-layered realities and to intimate to the viewer the mysteries of existence beyond the appearance of things.

            My most recent work in photography has been the use of mandalas, and now I am working on a children’s mandala coloring book.

            My work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California, and the Marsh Art Gallery at the University of Richmond, Virginia.

            I currently reside in Urbanna, Virginia, with my husband, Wyatt Portz.

Samples of Artist's Work: Click on Thumbnail for Enlargement

Baby Rabbits

Customized Frog

Cypress Point Yantra

Fairies Custom

Green Man Mandala

Plant Mandala

Rock Sorceress Mandala