Magical Thinking in the Woods

Featuring

Jeff Roland

Born in France in 1969, Jeff Roland is a prominent Neo Outsider artist. Having co-created the movement, Jeff creates bold, colorful personal pieces, which reflect a constant desire to explore the human psyche.

‘Life is a dream and Art makes it a reality. Art is a vehicle for human evolution, which acts as a gateway between what was and what will be, bringing the ancestral fears and conquests to the surface of the minds of this digital age. My paintings are the interconnected pieces of a poem, woven with the yarn of our human experience. They tell the tale of who we are, I believe a deep intuitive understanding results and our dreams come true. We have to live in a chaotic world, when we all in fact, thrive in harmony.”

His work is highly sought by collectors and features in a vast number of private collections within France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway, the USA, Canada, and the UK.

“The subconscious/conscious struggle depicted throughout Roland’s work [highlight] core aspect of his paintings. He constantly explores dualism and the individual’s attempt to define his place within a world of opposing forces. The polarities embedded in his paintings take many forms and include light and dark, ignorance and knowledge, the individual and the society, and the historical past (and its construction) and the present. His juxtaposition of primitive symbols- such as snakes and neolithic style figures – and contemporary symbols (including pop culture rabbits) – are a prominent example of this concern. These opposites, which affect both the artist and viewer, signify the constant pull of the conscious and subconscious on the individual.Jeff Roland’s paintings are not limited to a dualistic world view. The artist firmly believes that between the two most extreme points there are many universes and infinite possibilities. As such, his works record the fluid transition from one state of being to another.”