Painter Roelina Talla, born in The Hague and now living (after many years in Eibergen) in Vorden, enjoyed drawing as a child and over the years became increasingly interested in everything to do with visual arts.
From 1998, she took many lessons in (portrait) drawing, mandala making and acrylic painting techniques from various artists. Painting with acrylic paint, whether or not combined with other materials, became her great passion.
Under the motto colourful imagination, Roelina has been creating abstract acrylic paintings for many years. She creates small works with closed shapes and larger canvases with open shapes. When painting, she is strongly guided by feeling and fantasy and enjoys working spontaneously and uninhibitedly with colours, shapes and structures. Each painting is a leap of faith, a process of experimenting with the material, from which something new emerges. Using all kinds of materials, she expresses herself in an expressive, colourful way, trusting her intuition.
In her paintings, she mainly focuses on basic shapes, line play and structures. Through a special application of materials, the works have a playful technical/graphical appearance, with the circle and fan shapes in particular occupying a prominent place.
In 2003, Roelina won a prize for painting at a themed exhibition in Zutphen.
