Regina Ottman

Artist Regina Ottman's early teachers discovered she has perfect pitch and synesthesia (color-music).  While pursuing a career as an opera singer, she worked as a docent at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and eventually focused solely on visual art making. Synesthesia provides Ottman with rich sources of imagery.  

Her work has appeared in shows throughout the Northeast, including the annual Ellerslie Open at Trenton Museum of Art (Trenton, NJ), the Cultural Alliance of Western CT, the Regional Center for Women in the Arts (PA) and Perkins Center for the Arts Annual Juried Exhibits (Moorestown, NJ).  Her paintings, drawings, prints and encaustics hang in private collections throughout the eastern United States, in such varied spots as the Cooper Cancer Center (Camden, NJ), the office of the president of Camden County College (Blackwood, NJ), a Center for Family Services safe house (NJ), and on a community wall mural at Twisted Tatt2 in Camden (featured on Spike TV's "Tattoo Rescue.")    Ottman lives in historic Laurel Springs, NJ.  

I am interested in the way opposites inform and balance each other, and I love to explore these relationships in my work. Vulnerability and resilience, fragility and durability, sorrow and comfort, community and singularity, story and secret:  these tensions are fascinating to me, and fuel my curiosity and my work.  

As an artist born with perfect pitch and synesthesia, my ability to 'hear' colors is a deep source of inspiration.  I am currently working on a series of abstracts based on different musical keys, tempi and moods. exploring varieties of musically inspired palettes and textures to express aural ideas,

-  Regina Ottman, 2025