ABOUT THE ARTIST

"Simply Beautiful". These words are those most often used to describe the work of Roi James.
His paintings of transcendent landscapes, mystical figure portraits, and meditative abstracts all
acknowledge James to be a painter who is continually exploring and refining his technique.
The diversity of his styles and the fluency in which he paints reveal that innate ability often
described as a gift, but which is truly the result of a deep conviction and dedication towards his
creative expression.

Having successfully developed mature bodies of work in the figurative, landscape, and abstract schools,
in his latest work, James begins the integration of his compartmentalized styles to produce a singular and
unified voice. In this new series entitled "Dialogues", a personal and mystical language emerges which
speaks to the many layers and complexity which comprise our being. Paintings no longer reveal just surface
but expose the mystical currents which surround, penetrate, and flow through that surface. Each painting is
broken into multiple panel arrangements which engage each other in dialogues creating a dance between;
the traditional and the modern, formalism and contemporary, and representational and abstraction.
In these works, he produces images in which the viewer can experience both a sense of the familiar and
the unfamliar at the same time. There is a mysterious quality to the images. What are they? How were
they made? The mind wants to identify them so that they can be placed into the world of the known.
Yet the images defy a complete recognition leaving the viewer to rest in the uncertainty and mysteriousness
of what it is that they are observing. It's that msytery that gives the work it's strength and power.

His work resides in many prestigious private collections throughout central Texas and the United States

SHORT FILM by Filmaker/Producer Jon Hamlin

More of Jon's work can be seen at www.immaculateprojections.com