Roseta Santiago
The compelling paintings of Roseta Santiago arise from a vivid dream world. Her art is a gateway into the hearts of her subjects and a conduit for expressing the artist’s emotional contemplation of the world around her.
Following a successful career in commercial design—which funded her move to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and allowed her to devote long, intense hours to developing her skills as a fine art painter—santiago has risen to become one of America’s leading contemporary artists.
Faces inspire Santiago and are often the foundation for a new painting. “I always know when I see a face whether or not I want to paint it,” she says. “It’s not necessarily classic ideas of beauty that draw me—often it is something arresting, unique, a suggested revelatory character that shines through that I want to capture.”
Santiago is a disciplined, hard-working artist. She is a restless soul—her curiosity constantly drives her to question, to dream, to imagine. She channels those directives into her paintings and continues to raise the bar on their expressiveness. As collectors and art lovers across the country are drawn into her multifaceted vision it becomes apparent that here is a talent that never disappoints—she entices, she challenges, she reveals her own emotional quest and appreciation of beauty.