For as long as I can remember, I have gravitated toward art and its freedom of self-expression. Painting, in particular, has evoked in me a stirring of my deepest emotions."
- Roxanne Nichols
About Roxanne Nichols
As an Expressionist artist, Roxanne distorts reality for emotional effect. Each stroke of Roxanne's pallette knife is a culmination of her energy, passion and physical self at that particular moment in time. Whether her painting is of a spring-time landscape or somber portrait of human suffering her subject matter always reflects her state of mind.
Influences
Roxanne's introduction to art began at the age of four when her parents enrolled her into an art class at the Dallas Museum of Art. As Roxanne matured, her art did as well. Through her work she developed her sense of independence and separateness.
In 1998, Liz Richardson, a member of The Royal Academy of London, Master Colorist and Expressionist artist, became Roxanne's mentor. For the next several years Liz helped develop Roxanne's abilities as an artist. Roxanne also admired and studied the works of Mary Simpkins, Ramon Kelly, Sergei Bongart, J. Sarolla, Richard Schmidt, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Nicoli Fechin, Matisse, and Harley Brown.
Roxanne lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband and two lovely daughters.
