Roland
Escalona

I am a self-taught, abstract/contemporary artist. My art can be observed as an extension of my passion for architecture as evident of my extensive use of colors, shapes and architecture elements like houses and buildings; as well as my fascination with nature and its natural forms. My art is not of a particular medium or specific artistic style. While I enjoy using traditional mediums like pen and ink, acrylic and pastel, I constantly expand my creativity using unconventional items like dressmaker pins and other common items like paint chip samples and pencil shavings. Sometimes I like to mix colors in one artwork and in another be as dull as possible with just plain ink sketch of repeated houses. I spend endless hours covering a foam head with more than 48,000 dressmaker pins and cover an illustration board with acrylic paint one dot at a time. I also enjoy creating pieces in which elements are repeated over and over at a very small scale to a point that the art pieces are not recognizable from a distance -- just a blur. As a result, viewers' curiosity draw them closer to my art pieces to further investigate. Also, I pay a lot of attentions to details at some of my artworks. Recently, I have been expanding my creativity using a variety of digital arts software.  

My interest in creating art pieces started when I won first place the “Non-registered” category of the Architectural Record magazine’s 2014 napkin sketch competition, the year before I was a runner-up. After winning it, I realized how I missed the days back when I was in elementary school and high school when I used to win artistic slogans and posters competitions. Since winning the Architectural Record sketch competition, I've been creating art pieces for art exhibits and art competitions. I am lucky enough to have won numerous art awards at every level -- from local, to regional, to national. I also have been exhibited internationally. ​