American-born artist
Naomi VanDoren
Watercolor & Digital Painting
Naomi grew up in the spice islands of Indonesia. Her early immersion into a variety of cultures
and a childhood of travel has left
her with a lifelong desire to continue exploring the globe, and a
vivid imagination for worlds unknown. After moving to Japan in
2013, she took up digital painting
and her passion for creating art
blossomed.
Her work revolves around imaginative worlds, epic fantasy environments, and visual storytelling, and she is
often inspired by a location or feeling embodied in an
area she has visited. Many of her paintings include small
figures contrasted with immersive landscapes to emphasize
scale and to develop the story.
She currently works primarily in
digital painting and watercolor,
but is always exploring new
methods and mediums, looking
for novel ways to immerse her
audience and transport them to
faraway worlds.
She is passionate about all aspects of life, and devotes
a significant amount of time to travel, photography, and
writing in addition to her art. Her paintings reflect this
deep desire to explore not only the world she lives in, but
the ones that are not yet invented as well.