Artist
Rolina Nell
Name Rolina Nell
Nationality Dutch
I work with acrylic paint on canvas and incorporate other materials
such as fabric, wallpaper, shells and flowers. Until 2004 I used
especially saturated colors to almost blank. The persons on those
paintings seem retiring within themselves and unconscious of their
surroundings. In 2004 I started to paint more contrasting and more
physically, literally and figuratively more openness has come into my
painting. The persons on the paintings are more aware of their
surroundings and challenge the viewer more. I am captivated by the
tension which I see and feel around me, and realize that nothing is
what is seems. A tension with elements of oppression, suffocation,
desires and expectation, melancholy, desolation, beauty and hope. My
paintings seems to be in the first place superficial, apparent
superficiality interests me. My inspiration comes from alarming
(idyllic) scenes on photographs, from newspapers, magazines or
photographs I took myself. Many of these images which are inspiring me
have their origins in countries outside the Netherlands. Recent I have
started to paint paintings in which the so far always present persons
are absent. The absence of persons becomes tangible by painting
objects which are linked to a person. I have chosen for laundry, since
this is a personal event of personages.
In 2007 I am going to travel for a year and I will participate in
several artist in residencies(Georgia, Iran, India, China and Russia).
During this year you can follow my working process at my weblog
www.rolina-nell.blogspot.com