ron roland
contemporary landscapes in acrylic impasto style on birch panels
contemporary landscapes in acrylic impasto style on birch panels
Ron Roland & his partner
Suzanne Ens are caring
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Suzanne Ens are caring
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Although I have worked in both painting and
assemblage, my love affair with color and
movement is witnessed only through my
paintings. I want my paintings to evoke
participation. I want the viewer to be plunged
into the scene by the simple act of viewing. He
or she should be compelled and propelled into
the painting. I paint larger-than-life tree
scapes using a bold palette with high contrast.
My style uses an altered form of impasto
painting, that is, I use a brush and not a palette
knife to build up the paint to create texture. I
use no mediums in my paint. I paint wet-on-
wet and my board is both the substrate and the
palette, mixing colors as I paint directly on it. I
mean to show our sometimes conflicted and
ambivalent love affair with nature. The trees
are unnatural, topiary like, but they tower over
the little houses in gigantic scale to show their
perseverance. I started the tree landscape
series shortly after our Hurricane Ivan
experience in 2004. More abstract and
simplistic in the beginning, the ‘scapes have
taken on a life & world of their own. I began
adding the little red-roofed houses after a road
trip through the Blue Ridge & Shenandoah
Valley in 2006. They completed the scope I was
hoping to show with my manicured giant trees.
The trees are both majestic and dreamlike,
with a synthetic sensibility and at the same
time out of human control.
Ron began his career in art in early 1970s New Orleans,
designing both rock concert posters for The Warehouse and
layouts for the Sears catalog. He also did graphics and
illustration for In Your Ear, a New Orleans entertainment
guide. He then started Prime Graphics with colleagues from
Harry Maronne's graphic design studio, later evolving into
Sunshine Graphics which he ran for 15 years, collecting
numerous graphic design awards, all the while serving as
Director of the New Orleans Graphic Design Association. He
attended McCrady School of Art in New Orleans in the late
1960s after first attending L.S.U. as a civil engineering major.
Ron's work can be seen at fine art and craft shows in the
southeast and beyond.
assemblage, my love affair with color and
movement is witnessed only through my
paintings. I want my paintings to evoke
participation. I want the viewer to be plunged
into the scene by the simple act of viewing. He
or she should be compelled and propelled into
the painting. I paint larger-than-life tree
scapes using a bold palette with high contrast.
My style uses an altered form of impasto
painting, that is, I use a brush and not a palette
knife to build up the paint to create texture. I
use no mediums in my paint. I paint wet-on-
wet and my board is both the substrate and the
palette, mixing colors as I paint directly on it. I
mean to show our sometimes conflicted and
ambivalent love affair with nature. The trees
are unnatural, topiary like, but they tower over
the little houses in gigantic scale to show their
perseverance. I started the tree landscape
series shortly after our Hurricane Ivan
experience in 2004. More abstract and
simplistic in the beginning, the ‘scapes have
taken on a life & world of their own. I began
adding the little red-roofed houses after a road
trip through the Blue Ridge & Shenandoah
Valley in 2006. They completed the scope I was
hoping to show with my manicured giant trees.
The trees are both majestic and dreamlike,
with a synthetic sensibility and at the same
time out of human control.
Ron began his career in art in early 1970s New Orleans,
designing both rock concert posters for The Warehouse and
layouts for the Sears catalog. He also did graphics and
illustration for In Your Ear, a New Orleans entertainment
guide. He then started Prime Graphics with colleagues from
Harry Maronne's graphic design studio, later evolving into
Sunshine Graphics which he ran for 15 years, collecting
numerous graphic design awards, all the while serving as
Director of the New Orleans Graphic Design Association. He
attended McCrady School of Art in New Orleans in the late
1960s after first attending L.S.U. as a civil engineering major.
Ron's work can be seen at fine art and craft shows in the
southeast and beyond.