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Excerpt from Port Orford News feature:
ART...OFF THE WALL
By Brenda Fanning Foster
When
Elaine Roemen built her studio, she made a welcome center for all visitors. Walking up a few short steps, you are invited
to enter the house, through the studio. It is an eclectic, colorful, art studio housing frames, blank canvas, finished paintings,
art magazines and books. Surrounded on three sides by trees, light and openness, it is an unusually delightful experience.
The beauty of the artwork hung from high walls, resting on tabletops, and balanced against door frames, competes with what
Mother Nature offers, through the large panes of window glass.
It is hard to view her work and not be impressed with
her use of color, and personal technique, which immediately takes us to places she discovered, and wants to share. There is
a softness to even her bold colors, which almost allude to a pastel quality, although her medium is oil. While most of her
current works are of horses, local seascapes and landscapes, she also works on personal commissions.
With her Masters
in Art Therapy from Pratt Institute, and a BA in Art Education from New York University, Elaine worked for many years as an
art therapist. When she and husband Steve (a retired engineer) moved to Port Orford in 2002, she decided to devote full time
to being a studio painter. Elaine feels that the coastal residents truly appreciate the work of local artists, and their enjoyment
and praise of her work, has inspired her to continue to create the kinds of paintings gallery visitors enjoy viewing and buying.
Visitors will be treated to familiar scenes of Rogue River's Lobster Creek Bridge, Elk River, Coos Bay, Trail's Head in Port
Orford, along with many local places she captured in her colorful, brilliant interpretation.
Elaine's work can be
seen in Port Orford at the TriAngle Square Gallery, and in Bandon, at the Second Street Gallery as well as at Jacobs
Gallery in Eguene untill Augeust 22nd 2009.
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