About Randi Anderson

When I first started taking art seriously, I was heavily influenced by Frida Kahlo, various surrealists and fantasy artists I discovered through online communities, and the gothic aesthetic of Japanese visual rockers in the late 90s and early 2000s. As a result, both my acrylic paintings and my colored pencil drawings were either gothic or folkloric and somewhat visceral in content, full of sharp color and contrast. More recently, I have found inspiration from religious iconography and botanical illustrations, so I paint many "plant portraits" as well as figures surrounded by plants with spiritual or other symbolic meanings.