We make art to adorn life.
Be it a mug we hold in our hands, a painting we hang on our walls, or jewelry we wear on our bodies, art is made to adorn our everyday lives.
At Rosselle Studios, artist Andrea Rosselle makes quirky and beautiful things. An artist and teacher for over twenty five years, Andrea now focuses on making work in ceramics, painting, and jewelry.
Ceramics
Mugs, Sculpture, Ornaments…
Creating work in low-mid range white earthenware, Andrea makes handmade textural tools to create biomorphic surfaces on natural forms.
Decorative tile, trinket dishes, and flower vases are just a few of the art objects made in Andrea’s studio.
The direction in Andrea’s work changes, as her curiosities shift, and yet the aesthetic of her work remains remarkably rooted in natural forms and abstraction.
Adornment
Necklaces, Earrings, Pins…
Relying heavily on the visual contrast between textural elements and materials, Andrea’s handmade jewelry is made with ceramics, mixed media, and metals.
Painting
Andrea paints in water based materials: watercolor, ink, and acrylic. Organic Abstraction, be it landscape or mindscape, repeats throughout all her created work.
Nature imagery, organic forms, and fluid lines are common in Andrea’s painting. Be it the physical nature of the material elements such as the movement of water on paper when painting, or representations of organic life like cells and flora— our lived experience as human beings in a natural world are central to Andrea’s work.
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Andrea was raised with creative parents who made sure she had ample opportunity to experience the arts young. When Andrea was fifteen she brought a painting home, from her high school art class, that she wanted to work on over the weekend. On a wintery Saturday morning, she got up and started painting. The sun rose and set while she painted, and she never noticed. Andrea was so engrossed in her work that time disappeared. That experience was so striking to her, that she made the decision, at age fifteen, to be an artist.
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Andrea is inspired by both the beauty and destruction of nature. The seasonal changes in color, the gnarled roots of a weather worn tree, or the geometric patterns found in blooms around the garden— the nature that surrounds us and the nature found in us are an endless source of inspiration.
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Early in her art career, Andrea relied heavily on sketching, visual studies, materials exploration, and documentation of the creative process.
In her late twenties, Andrea was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis bringing constant change and disruption to her life. Over time, Andrea’s changing reality resulted in a shift to her art making practice.
Intuitive engagement with the creative process, while experiencing a fluctuating lived experience, resulted in a strong focus on the present, finding a state of flow, and actively engaging Chance as an art material.
Responsive art making allows Andrea to actively engage the changes happening in her body, by an ever changing disease, within the art making process. Allowing herself the freedom to consistently adapt and discover can be seen in her dynamic textural surfaces.