Annette Tojar was born and raised in South Florida. She pursued a pastry career in 2010 and trained at Johnson and Wales University in North Miami and Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Pâtisserie in France. Tojar earned her BFA in Graphic Design in 2018 and MFA in Studio Art & Design in 2021 from the University of Central Florida. Currently she works as an artist specializing in painting and graphic design.
Her pastry career strongly influences her paintings. The need to combine a multitude of textures in a single dessert for mouthfeel has transformed into an obsession to replicate textures and colors on a two-dimensional surface for visual indulgence; for the desire to touch, taste, and satiate. The work offers opportunities to relate intimately to the painted images of food while evoking personal memories and emotions. Interested in the physical qualities of paint while preserving the painter’s hand, Tojar is seeking to create a personal and meaningful approach to depicting images from observation.