AMELIE ROGERS - BIO AND ARTIST STATEMENT
Amelie Rogers is an award winning contemporary oil painter who
has been exhibiting her work since she was 17 and one of 100
students, statewide, juried into “Young Talent in Oklahoma” in the
field of painting. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma.
Her first one-person show was held in 1976. Since then her work
has appeared in shows and galleries from Florida to California. She
has resided in Daytona Beach, Florida for 14 years.
Her work includes American, European and African landscapes and
figures and is held in both corporate and private collections
throughout the US and abroad.
Rogers' work emphasizes the same underlying concept to painting
that has guided master painters for centuries. Her classical use of
transparent and semi-transparent glazes allows light to pass through
the scenes on her canvases, producing a luminosity and depth not
possible with the direct opaque method. Her color and subject
selection and her impressionistic, yet also representational, styles
are very contemporary. Rogers paints from memory, her sketches,
life and occasionally a photograph.
Rogers currently teaches the Landscape in Classical Oil at the Art
League of Daytona Beach. She is also an artist in residence with
VSA Florida. She is a member of Women Painters of the Southeast,
Oil Painters of America and Beaux Arts of Volusia County.
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Amelie Rogers is an award winning contemporary oil painter who
has been exhibiting her work since she was 17 and one of 100
students, statewide, juried into “Young Talent in Oklahoma” in the
field of painting. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma.
Her first one-person show was held in 1976. Since then her work
has appeared in shows and galleries from Florida to California. She
has resided in Daytona Beach, Florida for 14 years.
Her work includes American, European and African landscapes and
figures and is held in both corporate and private collections
throughout the US and abroad.
Rogers' work emphasizes the same underlying concept to painting
that has guided master painters for centuries. Her classical use of
transparent and semi-transparent glazes allows light to pass through
the scenes on her canvases, producing a luminosity and depth not
possible with the direct opaque method. Her color and subject
selection and her impressionistic, yet also representational, styles
are very contemporary. Rogers paints from memory, her sketches,
life and occasionally a photograph.
Rogers currently teaches the Landscape in Classical Oil at the Art
League of Daytona Beach. She is also an artist in residence with
VSA Florida. She is a member of Women Painters of the Southeast,
Oil Painters of America and Beaux Arts of Volusia County.
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Critics Comments –
“Rogers is an inspired landscapist whose work reflects an
emotional reaction to a natural vista.”
“The slender trees that emerge from the white haze in Rogers snow
study seem to shiver with the damp chill that pervades the nearly
abstract study.”
“It is easy to become spellbound in Rogers’ work.”
“In her practiced hands, Rogers’ images seem to simply flow from the oil paints.”
“Climatic effects take on magical overtones in Rogers’ work. Distant sheets of falling rain pick up rainbow tones from
ambient light, and appear to glow.”
“Rogers’ paintings are exotic, particularly her vividly articulated Rocky Mountain waterfall and “Moon Riders.” Tiny figures on horseback are
set in a vista so bare and rocky that it actually could be a moonscape, while an enormous rocky outcropping forms a hard, firm backdrop for
the abrupt waterfall in Rogers’ closely observed high-altitude study.”
“This painter understands oil paints and how to manipulate them on the canvas.”
“Ms Rogers applies her expertise of soothing colors, implied texture, and expressive tones to create enlightening temperament within her
paintings.”
“Rogers is an inspired landscapist whose work reflects an
emotional reaction to a natural vista.”
“The slender trees that emerge from the white haze in Rogers snow
study seem to shiver with the damp chill that pervades the nearly
abstract study.”
“It is easy to become spellbound in Rogers’ work.”
“In her practiced hands, Rogers’ images seem to simply flow from the oil paints.”
“Climatic effects take on magical overtones in Rogers’ work. Distant sheets of falling rain pick up rainbow tones from
ambient light, and appear to glow.”
“Rogers’ paintings are exotic, particularly her vividly articulated Rocky Mountain waterfall and “Moon Riders.” Tiny figures on horseback are
set in a vista so bare and rocky that it actually could be a moonscape, while an enormous rocky outcropping forms a hard, firm backdrop for
the abrupt waterfall in Rogers’ closely observed high-altitude study.”
“This painter understands oil paints and how to manipulate them on the canvas.”
“Ms Rogers applies her expertise of soothing colors, implied texture, and expressive tones to create enlightening temperament within her
paintings.”
