Born in Lafayette, IN, Paula Payne Ogden is a mother to two daughters and step

mother to one daughter and two sons and she is especially pleased to have nine beautiful grandchildren!

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Paula started her art journey at age 19, creating and exhibiting a form of tactile

artwork called trapunto. Paula, stretched her designs over a frame, so they could be

hung on a wall.

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A few years later, Paula attained her Associates in Liberal Arts with a heavy

emphasis on Visual Arts while at the same time, starting a faux finishing, a.k.a.

decorative painting business. She continued this business for fourteen years, but

congenital fusions in her cervical spine, caused her to give her business up.

 

It was fourteen years later when Paula began once again,

perusing her passion to create, using mixed media. She turned a spare bedroom

into a studio, signed up for an online mixed media course and the rest is history. 

Paula works primarily with fluid acrylics, alcohol inks, crackle and molding pastes,

gold leaf, gold and silver foils, resin and the cyanotype printmaking process. Her

substrates are canvas, cradled wood panels, and synthetic paper as well as,

watercolor, mixed media and drawing papers. She likes color and texture and has

been called the “Crackle Queen”, because you will often find the use of crackle

pastes somewhere in her work.

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Paula has also been called prolific. Creating many styles of art, she continuously has

multiple works progressing in different stages. She says she likes creating this way,

because depending on how much time she has or what she feels or doesn’t feel like

working on, she can choose her project accordingly.

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When she started painting again, she would work on one project at a

time, causing her to overwork a piece or “ruin” it. “I had to learn to set a piece

aside while I was still in that “LOVE IT” stage, a task made much easier by having

multiple pieces to work on. In addition, with multiple projects in process, I am less

fixated on any one given piece, which allows for more creativity. What were once

looked at as mistakes are now looked at as opportunities. Art is a process; it comes

​with its ups and downs and struggles too, but if you trust the process and stick with

it, a connection happens, and love ensues.” Her passion to embrace the process, is leading her to create her first online FREE WORKSHOP as well as "Studio Time with Paula", an online subscription service, both of which are coming soon.

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Paula's work exemplifies her relationship with the process of creating. Here you will see

the many techniques she has learned throughout the years. She hopes that you will

appreciate the combination of various mixed media techniques and diverse materials that

she employs in her creations, and that you, too, will “Fall in Love” with her art. Enjoy!