Collection: Loretta Rolison

A FEW THINGS ABOUT THE ARTIST

1. What do you do when you’re not making art? (Day job etc...).

Since my illness I was unable to work and now I hit retirement age. I participate in a weekly writing group and a once a month crime club discussion group at my local library. I like to read (mostly mysteries), go on short walks, play sudoku, on-line blocks, view artwork, read about art and artists, and attend estate sales.

2. Why do you make art?

I get oh, so grumpy and ugly if I do not. ...but I paint primarily to share with others the joy and pleasure of what I see and feel, so that they too might experience it on some level and have their life enriched.

3. What inspires you?

Light and shadow, color and form, whether it is on nature, people, or structures. Being outdoors beneath the expanse of the sky and experiencing all there is to see. Interactions of human beings in their daily life. The often overlooked moments of beauty and wonder.

4. What/who are your influences?

Oh, there are so many...the greats: Diebenkorn, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Sorolla, Brouillard, and Levitan. Contemporary landscape: Bato Dugarzhapov, Stephen Duren, Andrew Wyeth, Len Chmiel, George Carlson, Contemporary figures: Dan McCaw, Euan Uglow, Will Barnet, Malcom Liepke, Zoey Frank, Linda Christensen and Melinda Cootsona.

5. If you could meet anyone dead or alive who would it be?

Only one? dead- Sorolla, because he painted spectacular light and color, but hiding behind him are Isaac Levitan, then Cezanne, then Van Gogh. Living- Bato Dugarzhapov, and behind him would be Len Chmiel, Dan McCaw and Zoey Frank.