Adriana Rosell
Caracas, Venezuela (b. 1988)
Adriana Rosell uses her art to delve into the relationship between human psychology and the natural world. She explores how landscapes influence us; how a certain atmosphere in a place might shape our perceptions and emotions.
She's adept at depicting mountainous landscapes with all their subtleties and changing physical and atmospheric states, capturing the essence of what might otherwise be invisible or imperceptible. With her interplay of delicate pencil lines and blocks of acrylic colour, flattened planes and deconstructed perspectives, Adriana translates landscapes into rich and varied textures and forms, as if capturing a memory as opposed to a place.
“My landscape prints revolve around mountainous terrains and how to portray them. Not just visually, in terms of drawing what I see, but by including environmental elements, the quality of the air perhaps, atmospheric phenomena, heat, cold, fog. Capturing how mountains constantly change; the weather changes, they erode, their ecosystems evolve. I capture what it’s like to be in the mountains at a certain moment and translate that experience into art.” Adriana Rosell.
