Roland Thompson
“For me, painting is an act of meditation. The artwork results from concentration on a single moment or event. A million or so single events presented next to each other, within a context, consitute the completed art object.

The painting is initiated by a production plan. Execution of the plan (the medium of meditation) is made through a series of decisions considering the boundaries of the production plan.

The meditation is double-minded. While a portion of my brain is kept active moving my body and making judgments, the rest is left to think freely–to imagine.

The painting might be influenced by the free thoughts of the meditation. Possibly the marks vaguely represent images of reverie, or maybe the reverie is simply a fantastic elaboration departing from the image of the marks. And yet, maybe my experience isn’t relevant to the enjoyment of the work. But to the those who are curious, my favorite themes to contemplate are: notions of beauty (ancient and modern), desert landscape, cartography, and technologies (real and imagined) that aid seeing across time and space.”

Roland Thompson studied painting at BYU and then received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has shown extensively across the united states including at White Columns, Pierogi, The Painting Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art Fort Collins, and many other places. He lives in Cedar Hills, UT with his wife and children.