Friday, April 16, 2010

Expressive Live Painter


Roland is an expressive, on location- live painter in East and Central Africa,of souvenirs on events ,portraits and landscape, having majored in portraiture at the Art school Makerere University,
Leading a team of professional artists that include Sculptors, Painters, Landscape Artist, Interior & Graphic Designers (the Armor Arts-Uganda).
Exhibited his art internationally with several galleries, participated several international festivals of music and arts with souvenir paintings.Tibirusya Roland's is an artist of many talents: he is a painter (of souvenirs, portraits and landscapes), an innovator, and a writer. In painting, he is best known as the pioneer of expressive live paintings - albeit he is also the artist who introduced the concept of sharing canvass signature with others - as an innovator, he prides himself on beginning an unprecedented art movement at Makerere University where he introduced the unique idea of expression with color, bearing on the experiences not the traditions of the old masters; and as a writer he is author of The Understanding of Souvenir Paintings.

Visual Arts


Roland's has featured on BAYIMBA International festival of music and arts. On WAPI Art Exhibition- a British Council initiative, LABA art festival UGCS( Uganda German Cultural society), PASSIONS Kampala tour 08,The Masika Zimmerman Nairobi. Painted on the SSQ-Soweto string quartet concert.
Profiles on NTV (National television), UBC-Uganda Broadcasting corporation( twice as Souvenir artist), Breakfast show on 106.1 U- FM among others.
His Souvenir paintings ,philanthropic works have also featured in local dailies. Daily Monitor, The New Vision, The independent, Weekly observer, The rock, the Prime timer.

ARTIST'S PHILOSOPHY
Art reveals the Spirit of a master designer
That art is a unique way through which each one of us can express himself to the creator.

Hobbies,Favourite books,

  • Kigezi and its people,the history of man