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Ingrid Roth
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, arthistorian at the
National Museum for Art in Copenhagen
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Merete Sanderhoff, arthistorian at the
National Museum for Art in Copenhagen
För SVENSKA klicka här.
Describing Ingrid Roth as a Passionist feels right. A group of artists who according to Merete Sanderhoff 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, selfdoubt – 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, 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.
"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".
"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
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
Ingrid´s work at Expressive Arts Stockholm
Ingrid perches on a table beside the big windows, in a dress bedecked with tulips and a blue smock awash with paint splashes. We are in one of the many rooms in her studio on the island of Biskops Arnö. The walls and floor are protected with heavy grey paper and five easels are positioned around the room. Ingrid speaks animatedly about the importance of painting in her life, how it’s given her meaning and direction. She speaks dispassionately and openly about difficulties in her life and how to get started painting. In front of her, hanging on every word, is a group of expressive art therapists-in-training. “Anyone can paint,” she says. “It’s within us all, you just have to start. Start by priming the canvas. Just apply paint – the more layers the better. You can spend days priming. And then you keep priming until something new happens. It always does, and when it does you just go with it. Watch and listen. And then you need to take breaks. Frequent breaks, even. And drink coffee. That’s my theory, the Coffee Theory. It works – you just take a seat in front of the picture with your mug in hand and just look. Let the picture speak to you. Look at it, talk to it. Listen to the answer. Maybe close your eyes. There’s always something. Listen, drink your coffee and look. Or take a walk and come back to it with fresh eyes. That always helps you see what to do next. What is the picture trying to show you?”
Margareta Wärja
Ingrid perches on a table beside the big windows, in a dress bedecked with tulips and a blue smock awash with paint splashes. We are in one of the many rooms in her studio on the island of Biskops Arnö. The walls and floor are protected with heavy grey paper and five easels are positioned around the room. Ingrid speaks animatedly about the importance of painting in her life, how it’s given her meaning and direction. She speaks dispassionately and openly about difficulties in her life and how to get started painting. In front of her, hanging on every word, is a group of expressive art therapists-in-training. “Anyone can paint,” she says. “It’s within us all, you just have to start. Start by priming the canvas. Just apply paint – the more layers the better. You can spend days priming. And then you keep priming until something new happens. It always does, and when it does you just go with it. Watch and listen. And then you need to take breaks. Frequent breaks, even. And drink coffee. That’s my theory, the Coffee Theory. It works – you just take a seat in front of the picture with your mug in hand and just look. Let the picture speak to you. Look at it, talk to it. Listen to the answer. Maybe close your eyes. There’s always something. Listen, drink your coffee and look. Or take a walk and come back to it with fresh eyes. That always helps you see what to do next. What is the picture trying to show you?”
Margareta Wärja
The first book about Ingrid Roth presents her background, her importance as an artist, a therapist, and pedagogue, but also - and more importantly - a wide selection of her best paintings.
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