Arabella Proffer is an artist and author. Her work combines interests in portraiture, visionary art, and biomorphic abstraction. She delves into her practice of oil painting tying together relationships to biology, nature, and emerging sciences.
She attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA before receiving her BFA from California Institute of the Arts where she studied under artists such as John Mandel, Derek Boshier, Jim Shaw, and Suzan Pitt. Arabella’s work is in over 100 private collections, and she participates in solo and group exhibitions throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and bred in Southern California, she and her husband live on the shores of Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio. She lives and works with terminal cancer.