Ingrid Roth was born in 1958 and currently lives in the north of Sweden.
She is both an educated artist and expressive art therapist and has been represented at numerous galleries, artshops and companies all over Sweden and in many other countries.
“Creating art for me is to open up my heart”.
What gives me the most inspiration is the daily life around me - family, friends, nature, memories from my travels and time I have spent in other countries.
Besides creating her own art, Ingrid is also engaged at the Swedish Education for Expressive Art Therapists. If you wish to come in contact with her, mail to ingridrothsweden@hotmail.com |
The Passionists are artists
who explore basic existential problems and are characterised by their
concern for traditional content and techniques. Passionist artists focus
on the exploration of elementary existential conditions and problems.
They are considered black sheep in an art scene where avant-garde is
the norm.”
Merete Sanderhoff, researcher at the National Museum for
Art in Copenhagen and author of “Sorte Billede – Kunst og
Kanon” [Black Pictures – Art and Canonisation]
Describing Ingrid Roth as a Passionist feels right. A group of artists
who according to Merete
Sanderhof continue to use traditional techniques to create figurative
and narrative paintings. Artists whose paintings express love, hope
and poetry. Their work can also portray themes like pain and loss, longing
for something that is gone or unattainable, self-doubt – but most
of all, poetry.
Ingrid Roth has only recently established herself as an artist. Her
works hang in galleries in Östersund,
Uppsala, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Bollnäs, Borås, Värnamo,
Tranås, New York, Bankok and Longyearbyen in Svalbard. She has
held around 20 solo exhibitions since 1994, and her travelling exhibitions
have reached as far as Tokyo and Bangkok.
If, dear reader, you would like to disengage yourself from the brutality
of today’s avant-garde art, news reports, crime stories or computer
games – you can find comfort in Ingrid Roth’s poetic images.
Ingrid Roth inspires hope.
“Learning to take nothing for granted has been difficult,
I think. My conclusion is that I should enjoy what I have, as long as
I have it. Stop and live life here and now, there is hope for everyone,
a place for everyone. That is what I want to say with my paintings.”
Ingrid sees bold, vibrant colours as a challenge. She
wants to combine strong colours so that they harmonise with each other.
The stark contrasts are important, equally important as night needing
day, joy needing sorrow. Ingrid uses colour contrasts to portray extreme
emotional states.
Colour is not the only element of focus in Ingrid’s work. Her
motifs include floating people, tulips, leaning buildings, suns and
moons. She portrays the washing, bathtubs, coffee tables, happy everyday
scenes. With dogs, birds and masses of tulips. Images created by an
apparently refined naïvist that give the viewer a real endorphin
kick.
Tage Levin text from the book " a passionist artist" |
