Doug Motel

Doug Motel is an artist who also coaches other artists on reaching their career goals.

Doug began exhibiting his paintings at age 12 (lying about his age in order to show his work) and after a lifetime of creating realistic portraits, he began exploring “automatism”: (creating art without conscious thought and accessing material from the unconscious mind as part of the creative process) at the start of the pandemic.

After reconnecting with his Hawaiian roots and family on Ohau, he began painting watercolors that express his take on the “Aloha Spirit”. Using the blues and greens of the ocean, he paints nonrepresentational abstracts on paper, plexiglass, acrylic resin molds, and canvas.

His other passion is in speaker and coaching artists to realize their potential and “go for it”!