Rochelle Boland

Rochelle Boland holds both a Diploma in Fine Art and a BA in Visual Art and was a finalist in the Perspectives Exhibition at The Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1993.

 

Rochelle’s work includes acrylic paintings, photographic prints, drawings and mixed media, using bold colour and multi-layering of sinuous, organic forms.

 

The palate and dreamlike quality of Rochelle’s figurative works, draw inspiration from Chagall, whose paintings Apollinaire once described as ‘supernatural’. 

 

Having a kinaesthetic disposition, her spiritual abstraction works have a confluence of music and spirituality, inspired by expressionist artists, such as Kandinsky. These works explore themes of the body and the symbiotic relationship between the macrocosm and microcosm.

 

With interests in metaphysics and quantum physics, Rochelle’s abstract works emulate the holographic or microcosmic-macrocosmic paradigm articulated in the Buddhist principle of “three thousand realms in each thought-instant”.

 

Similar to the process of Jackson Pollock, Rochelle does not use an easel, but works on the floor, moving around the work from all angles to be nearer and part of the work. She experiences each work as a process of creating & destroying, directed by the subconscious, with each painting having a life of its own. 

 

“As in life, I believe that art is about the journey not the final destination, where the magic is in not knowing where you will end up. Beneath each painting I create, are a multitude of other paintings, which, though unseen, may be felt by the viewer and add to their multidimensionality.”