Paloma Reanna - Drawings

Paloma Reanna is a nomadic artist whose work is rooted in realist portraiture, intimate figurative art, and dark symbolic imagery. Her work encompasses a wide range of mediums, from charcoal, colored pencil, and pastel to oil, watercolor, and acrylic.

Her love of creating began around the age of three, when she drew on walls, herself, and any surface she could find. Her parents bought her a chalkboard, which became her first dedicated canvas. As a child, she spent hours drawing and reading at the National City Public Library, enamored with romance novels, horror stories, and comic books. In her teens, she received commission work from her peers for portraits and graffiti artwork. After spending some years in regular jobs, she had an epiphany in 2015 that drew her back to realism and a deeper study of human faces and forms.

Her devotion to art naturally expanded into photography and videography, growing alongside her love of travel. Much of her early work was inspired by the people she met while solo traveling in Europe, as well as South and North America. During her four years of van life, she evolved from illustrator and painter into a photographer, filmmaker, and songwriter, sharing music she had written years earlier. At the core of her practice is a manifestation of intuitive feminine power, shaped by over a decade of solo travel and conveyed through visceral visions and introspective reflection.

She has exhibited her work at the San Diego Fine Art Festival, Art on 30th Gallery in San Diego, The Hive Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles, and NFT NYC three years in a row, as well as independently owned art spaces in Brooklyn and San Diego. She has also completed several commissioned paintings and drawings, as well as concept art for the short film El Gato Feo. In 2025, she began teaching charcoal classes in Brooklyn.

Paloma’s art evokes a spectrum of raw emotion and reveals her bold, untamed energy. She navigates the tension between the dramatic, rebellious shadows of her mind and the playful, whimsical light of her personality, creating work that honors the many facets of feminine power and the transformative nature of solo travel.