Roxene Sloate

Roxene Sloate’s rich background in color theory and pleine aire painting culminates in her full-bodied, jubilantly tumultuous seascapes.  The way the water eddies and the sky swells evidences Sloate’s intuitive understanding of oil paint’s viscosity and color’s magnitude. Her paintings have an insistent physical presence, compelling viewers to lose themselves in the activity on the canvas, to imagine the force of individual waves and the vastness of the sea as a whole. Sloate visits the same locales repeatedly, returning on different days and at different times to paint the scene in a new light. Since she moved to Florida in 1996, Sloate has focused on the Florida landscape, becoming intimately attuned to her environment. She responds to nature’s ever-changing characteristics, trying to capture the shifting experience through her paintings.

Studying with painter Graham Nickson, Dean of the New York Studio School, honed Sloate’s approach to color. She also studied extensively at the Art Students’ League in New York, at the Kansas City Art Institute, and at Smith College, where she received a B.A. in Art