Category:Hroe

The ChromeSun Bio of H. Roe. An artist residing in Lafayette, La. When I was 12 years old I discovered what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. All thru high school I worked on building a portfolio that would help me get into an art school. After high school, I attended the Columbus College of Art and Design for a year. When I returned home to Portsmouth, Ohio for the summer, I met Robert Dafford. I began working for him as a summer job on the then newly commissioned Portsmouth Floodwall Mural Project. That fall, Mr. Dafford asked if I'd be interested in working for him for a year instead of immediately returning to school at C.C.A.D. I decided to take a year off, and it turned into many more, and what began as a summer job turned into a 15 year career. Thru all of the intervening years I continued to work on my own paintings and drawings, incorporating all he and the other artists at Dafford Murals had to teach me. Over the years my personal work has ranged over a variety of subjects and mediums. I did a whole series of paintings exploring my roots in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. I discovered the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. I've started incorporating digital manipulation and other multimedia techniques into my paintings and into the design process at Dafford Murals. I've spent more than a few years trying to teach myself renaissance style oil painting techniques. I think I learned how to paint a decent landscape. I began a long term project writing and illustrating a graphic novel, The Black Sun. I've self-published the first 2 chapters, and am planning on finishing the last 3 chapters and trying to have it published the old fashioned way. Some of my work is historical illustration, my second love has always been history and archaeology. I'm especially interested in illustrating American Indians, specifically the Mississippian Era of prehistory. Many of my pieces reflect my love of mythology, religions, and spirituality. But no matter what techniques, mediums, or subject matter I explore in a piece, I always try to show my understanding of truth and light {metaphorical as well as literal} in my art. I firmly believe there is beauty and truth in all aspects of existence, and it is the purpose of artists, whether they're painters, poets, etc., to communicate and translate this to the rest of humanity. Through our art can be seen our understanding of the world and existence, where we are and where we have been. And more importantly, where we can go. I hope you appreciate my art for what it is, my little slice of existence, my keyhole on the world. There are many galleries of my different kinds of work here. Paintings, Drawings, Digital Illustrations, digital animations, The Black Sun, and of course Murals. For those who've seen my work before, I hope you find something new. And for those who are seeing it for the first time, I hope you like it and come back.