Angela Jernigan

I am a painter and a mixed media artist who creates artworks as visual soul medicine. My primary vocation is as an ordained community-based minister of love and justice in a breaking open world. Whereas some ministers preach sermons, I create visual art. My work is a celebration of aliveness and collective belonging, offered as a prayer for the soul of the world.

Through my artwork, I embrace the marriage of the mystical and the mundane, the secular and the sacred. My art pieces are colorful, layered, textured, and oriented toward what I find enlivening—even as my creative process explores and metabolizes divisions, disconnections, skewed relations, brokenness and incompleteness. I use a combination of acrylic paint, chalk and oil pastel, pencil, crayon, and collage materials from everyday ephemera of life. I paint and collage in layers on repurposed wood panels donated from a local craftsman in my neighborhood in West Berkeley, California. My work often includes plants and flowers that grow in my Iocal area, and place-scapes that feature the East Bay Hills, which I have gazed upon and been held by in times of extreme personal dislocation, lostness, and restoration. I create works that are a visceral experience when from a distance, with more and more revealed as the viewer comes closer.