Diane Rolnick

Artist Statement      

 

I see and understand the world with a painter’s mind and eye as a digital mixed-media artist. With my ever consuming curiosity, I explore ideas that get “dropped” into my senses and inner thoughts as I view what is around me. Investigating the complexities and gestures of human actions, expressions, and connections with self, nature, and place excite and inspire my images. 

 

The recent ruling of the Supreme Court to deny abortions to women has made me realize how I have internally focused on women; our inner tinkering’s, and our fight through the years to be treated as an equal part of the human race.  As my work develops, I have also been reviewing my own history, stories, and struggles.

 

Looking forward towards a more viable and enriching future, I believe human and mother nature connect in empathy towards cycles of growth, change, discord, and the physical (movement, expression, beauty, aging).  I hope more people will recognize this especially important concept.  During the last six years I have been hiking early mornings with my dogs first Cooper and now Galyn in the arroyos and trails near my home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, recording the foliage, flowers, light, and shadows of the seasons.  I feel grateful for my closeness to nature everyday.