The Bio

I beleive I make my life by what I give to my art. My art comes from deep within me and flows energetically through time and space.

I am self taught, so rules don't play into my process. I start painting with a mess of colors and varnishes and work toward organizing it all to completion.

I live with my art almost 24/7 because feelings of joy and excitment are there. The colors are warm and friendly and through them I sense a celebration of life beginning to emerge ... my style is a kind of freedom of speech sounding out from the work and from deep within me. The images pulse energy and I like it that there are no rules or boundries to stiffle my feelings. I feel alive through my work and so I love to paint ... love to listen to my heart tell me what to do next.

A critic once wrote of my art ... " Rochelle's works often nuance the subject with the perspective of a surveilance camera focused through stop frame motion and close-ups. She explores both the abstract and the real as tools to describe elements of hyper-real hallucination " .

Measuring chains, constructing realities, putting form into place
a matrix of illusion and dis-illusion
a strange attracting force
urging a seduced reality to spontaneously feed upon itself

Here are a few of her favorite pictures, which can be clicked to enlarge: