Name/Title
Roslyn Tunis - Three Raizels - ReutlingerDescription
I began my career in art at age 9 painting doll faces and decorating doll hats for my dad’s business! As a preteen, I took myself to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for Art Classes and my first Museum experience! Museums became my passion. Working as a Museum Curator for five decades allowed me to experience many artistic traditions including Ethnographic Art and Indigenous cultures. My own art work is a blend of it all- mythological, realistic and spiritual. The central figure of “Three Raizels” is in transformation from human to sea creature. Her lower half is a whale’s tail that ends in the wheel of a wheelchair. Above are Raizel as a young child and her great grandmother who sent her back from the other world when Raizel was in a coma. The horns growing from her head reminds me of G-d sending a ram to Abraham to stop the sacrifice of Isaac; thus, life was saved in the bible and mine in the 20th century. Roslyn Tunis “Three Raizels” 2021 Pen/Watercolor/Collage on Paper 9” x 12”
