Minneapolis Artist
Minneapolis Artist Roger Williamson
Minneapolis artist painter Roger Williamson, original symbolic fine art oil paintings inspired by mythological and magickal themes, including the major and minor arcana cards of the tarot.
Roger Williamson is a visual artist and author residing and creating in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Born in Loughborough, England, in 1947 and growing up in Coventry he was inspired from an early age by the French Symbolist painters of late nineteenth-century France,
These artistic influences, in conjunction with his esoteric upbringing and practical experiences of mythology and dream control, form the matrix, a collective oeuvre upon which his paintings and writings are an extension.
Taking ancient classical myth themes in a way that is both timeless and modern he invites audiences to enter a personal dream theatre.
Aspiring to reintroduce mystery and ambiguity back into the adventure of human existence through the creative process, his works encourage artistic audiences towards “living effulgent and invigorating lives, revitalized from the secretions of their subconscious.”
Roger Williamson is the creator of the Tarot of the Morning Star deck and the author of The Sun at Night.
Statement
Art is an externalization of struggle to rationalize and give form to something not understood.
The artist, like the oyster, is driven to externalize this conflict into the image of a pearl.
I believe art should be appreciated through a viewer’s individual intercourse with the work, allowing the image to speak for itself and not be prejudged by society’s academic paradigms.
This concept has close parallels to techniques first acquired in childhood, such as the ability to stare at clouds and see recognizable images arise and fall in the mind’s eye out of what initially was perceived as chaos.
Through this technique, letting a work speak to a deeper self than the superficial mind involves the viewer in the creative process, their imagination evolves the artwork to another level. The work is no longer stationary but part of a wave as is nature herself.
Tarot of the Morning Star deck available from Amazon 
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