
“Self Portrait” Acrylic 28” x42”
Roxana’s sensitive use of nature’s colors and strong compositional elements convey the intense beauty the artist sees in the world around her. Her paintings invite the viewer to walk down those mountain trails and explore a world that lies far from the hustle of everyday life.
As a child, Roxana (known by friends as Roxy) got started in art by drawing made-up story illustrations and paper dolls with her two sisters. In elementary school she was constantly drawing and doodling, getting in trouble from her teachers and winning acclaim as the best artist in the class by her classmates who would ask her to draw pictures for them. When she was ten, her family moved to Tucson, Arizona where her grandmother, a landscape painter in Ray, Arizona, taught her to paint and gave Roxy her first set of oil paints.

“Coming Home” Oil 42” x28”
After college graduation and the subsequent pursuit for employment and family life, Roxy, her husband their three children settled down in Columbia, Maryland. Children and a full-time career as an architect brought a halt to Roxy’s oil painting for almost 15 years, though she continued to draw, drafting along with sketching the people around her.
With her career and family well established, Roxy began to feel the need to get back to the painting she loved. It was then that she saw a class in acrylic painting offered at the local county art center. She signed up with the idea that acrylics would be safer to use around children and was soon rewarded with entry in her first art exhibition. Jennifer B.Scott in the Ellicott City Times referred to Roxy as an “upcoming artist”, featuring a 4" x 6" photograph of her painting and a brief interview, “I’ve never shown before and I aspire to be an artist who can actually sell paintings, says Roxana Sinex, a first-time exhibitor” quotes Scott.
She goes on to say, "Sinex’s painting, “Aspen Grove,” which depicts beatifully tall trees, exhibits her understanding of nature and the world." The painting sold before the show was over.

“Aspen Grove” Acrylic 34” x24”
Although Sinex’s professional life was filled with drawing buildings, her artistic subject matter is all about life. “I paint what I love, people, trees, wildflowers, forest animals and water”, says Sinex. Yet the architect is there. She organizes many of her paintings by integrating pieces of buildings such as old window sashes into her work. Other paintings, such as her large wildflower series and her squirrels and chipmunks serve as accent pieces to her primary work. But she always works at keeping in mind something that a client once asked for while commissioning a painting for her breakfast room, “I want bread and cheese and something to make me smile”.
Roxy did paint the painting as requested, adding in the client’s dog peeking over the edge of the table, very intently eyeing the big chunk of cheese. Afterwards, the client told her, “Whenever I look at that painting, I can't help smiling”. Roxy aspires to always keep this in mind as she paints. “Step into my painting, relax and when you leave, do it with a smile”.
-Roxana Sinex-
Roxana Sinex Art PO Box 31093 Greenville, SC 29608 Phone:
Website: www.roxanasinexart.com Email: roxana@roxanasinexart.com