Rollie Brandt

     As a child, Rollie Brandt knew that she wanted to pursue a career in art. Known as “the artist” throughout her school days, young Rollie revealed an uncharacteristically mature dedication to developing her artistic skills. For many teenagers standard course work is enough, but Rollie sought advanced training in commercial art through college correspondence courses, and furthered her formal training and accelerated her artistic growth with the entrepreneurial launching of a sign-painting business in her sophomore year.

     All the while she was employed as a graphic artist and even after she left the work force to raise her three children, Rollie painted purely for the love of it, basically teaching herself techniques, entering her paintings in her local county fair art show every year. “I would paint while my kids napped,” she said. In 1994, she was recognized by Wild Wings who published her first print of a young boy ice fishing.

     Rollie Brandt has recently focused on the family farm, which she feels is slowly disappearing from the rural landscape. “I want to preserve some of these beautiful scenes of rural Americana if I can”, she says. ”I grew up spending time at the farms of my relatives and had horses all through my childhood. I'm an animal lover who's used to climbing fences and getting dirty, and I love the outdoors, so I'm in my element! Cresting a hill or rounding a bend in the road can offer her inspiration to go to her home studio and create an original painting of what she sees.... The sun shining on a family farm, dairy cattle peacefully grazing in a field, an old barn that is showing it's age, a silo covered in vines.

     Besides the pleasure of creating her farm paintings, she enjoys the friendly people who live and work on these farms. “I have met some of the NICEST people by simply stopping by to get permission to walk around and take reference photos. Many of the farm families shared some wonderful stories with me and have been so hospitable! Rollie has said that she will never run out of ideas and hopes people continue to get pleasure from them!

Robert Paul Galleries is proud to show the works of American artist Rollie Brandt.