Jackie Roliardi

Painting and Drawing

An abstract painting image of blocks of white, light green and lavender colors with a couple of areas of an intense pink color
A woman of indeterminate middle age is seen working in her painting studio. She has shoulder-length, wavy, sandy-colored hair, a fair complexion and is wearing a black shirt and some jewelry. She’s shown using a palette knife to scrape along the edge of a canvas surface she’s painting on

My work is inspired by the work of the Abstract Expressionist art movement of the 1940s , as well as with the Bay Area Figurative painters in the 1950s and 1960s. I view art as an expression of what wants and needs to come forth.

I work freely and spontaneously initially, allowing the content to literally find itself in the work through the use of a variety of tools and techniques. Each piece involves intricate layering of paint and transparent glazes, with an eventual focus on the design elements of color, value, texture, line and shape in relationship to each other, and to the whole composition.

I experience the creative process in the same way that I approach and experience everything in life. Life cannot be coaxed into being. What wants to come forth, will, and what needs to fall away, will. Life always wants to renew itself in this way, and asks us to provide the space to let it happen. The struggle ensues, when we resist the change that is trying to find it's way to us, and we are too fixed. It limits us in life, and in art.

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An abstract painting composed of bright orange and yellow shapes and blue streaks among some blocks of white and light grey. The combination of shapes and colors almost resembles an urban shoreline along a body of water at sunrise or sunset.
A painting of a woman with long, brown hair and fair skin, and wearing a large green overcoat and wearing blue jeans and shoes. She is seated in a partially obscured forest
A painting of 1 male and 2 nude females standing near one another in a dark space. The style is very abstract, reducing the human figures to little more than beige, brown and grey shapes