BIOGRAPHY

Lori Roll is an Oklahoma artist with a background in photography, jewelry and art.  She currently works in cold wax and oil, encaustic wax, multimedia sketchbooks and collage. Her loose graphic style evokes her love of nature, interior and exterior landscapes, mark making and bold color to create works evoking memories experienced and imagined. She enjoys the freedom of abstract expression in her inventive works which employ light, shadow, color and personal language in architectural layers.  

 

Lori is a graduate of the University of Tulsa in communications, where she studied photography and pottery.  She augments her background in art and design by attending creative workshops with recognized artists as inspiration for growth and artistic evolution.  In addition, she teaches group and individual workshops with a passion for helping artists learn more about personal expression, color, composition and the rich fluidity of cold and hot wax mediums.  Her work is found in galleries and private collections across the country.  She was selected as one of nine Oklahoma artists to exhibit and sell her work at THE Art Auction of the Oklahoma A+ Schools Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma.   

 

I grew up in a cul-de-sac on Little Joe Creek in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  It was my natural paradise, and I spent countless hours in the creek clearing streams, making tadpole pools, creating rock art and drying mud pottery in the sun.  That childhood paradise informed my entire life with a love of nature and a deep sense of protection toward the beauty and diversity of the natural world.  

 

It is also my love of nature that finds its way into my work.  Because I grew up on the prairie, the sky has always drawn my eyes and clouds generally find their way into most art pieces.  I'm also drawn to the ocean and I lived my dream in Maine for a number of years before moving back to the prairie.  Even though I miss the ocean, I find the waving grasses are ocean enough for now.