Rochelle Ikin is a conceptual artist whose work blends figurative painting with experimental textiles. While her work tends to be rooted in personal experience it also extends to explore the broader human condition. 

 

The stitches in her paintings are fractures based upon doorways and interiors. She is interested in how a door can be both a barrier and a passageway: a means of entry, constraint and escape.

 

For Rochelle, painting is a form of expression and a means of sharing in communion with others. She appreciates how the visual arts transcend linguistic barriers and how they can provide a means to express what cannot be explained with words. Words do yet remain important to the artist; the titles of each artwork display a love of symbolism and poetry.