John Rosell Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri and having married his high school sweetheart, John Rosell, Cheryl, and baby daughter Beth fled to Canada following university due to political differences over the American policy in Southeast Asia and personal moral convictions which were the foundation for his unique creative works.
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Reflecting life’s sorrows, sexuality, and sublime moments, his work is less concerned with “meaning” than with the “experience.” The passion and angst reflected in his work provide insight into his understanding of life. They include paintings, collages, box constructions, and books.
“I paint alone in a room…more an interrogation cell. I’m never sure if I’m being tortured or if this artist thing isn’t taking all before me to the breaking point.
There is an instinctive need to take things through a dark distortion…it allows the realization of life’s frightful beauty…for life indeed lives on life…each second is fraught with the onset of a necessary blood letting…your own or someone else’s…at best this existence is violently fragile.
Each breath, each heartbeat is teeming with sexuality and fear…confounded we wait our lives away hoping for the explanation knowing it will never come.
My paintings have no meaning not unlike myself…they as I are simply the experience.”
John Rosell - 2007
Elizabeth Rosell Biography
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Elizabeth Rosell lives in Timmins, located in Northern Ontario, Canada. She has spent her life working in the non-profit field, inspired by her own mental health issues with borderline personality disorder. After many years of remaining silent about her own condition, today Elizabeth is an advocate for the destigmatization of mental health issues. As a writer, Elizabeth is always trying to explore the uncommon, the different, whether that be through an other-worldly science fiction story or in a non-fiction piece on otherness. She has been published in The Seat, Punk Monk, Nova Literary, The Amphibian, and Yale’s The Perch, among others. When not writing, Elizabeth enjoys “crafternoons” with friends.