Roxanne Darling

American, b. 1952

Roxanne Darling is an emerging artist currently presenting self-portraits in the American West, which are accompanied by her poetry. Themes of self-acceptance, MeToo, and concern for our natural world weave consistently through her work. 

Her art explores many mediums and conceptual ideas. Her black and white drawings often include a sense of whimsy and positivity. Her biophilic art photography expresses the inner vibrational state of her subject matter. Here Energy Chairs invite us to be more intentional with our intentions — both giving and receiving.

As a combined visual, conceptual, and literary artist, words and numbers appear in her work as do influences from her previous careers as a marine biologist, ballet dancer, health coach, and technologist. She is agnostic regarding her tools and has used painting, photography, film, video, and writing along with performance and construction to express her creative ideas.

Her work is influenced by (and has been compared to the work of) Ana Mendieta, Anne Brigman, and Marina Abramovic. She has said “I no longer want to segregate my interests as these times call for creative, multidisciplinary, and female-focused approaches to the problems we face as individuals as well as citizens of a struggling planet.”

This website is dedicated to a single project, I AM: For the Love of Nature. Roxanne’s main artist website is at RoxanneDarling.com.