About The Artist

 Roland Carmen has been an artist most of his life, starting at the age of five. Inspired by an elder sibling’s simple drawings using pencil to paper, Roland was in complete awe of the creativity it possessed and has been drawing ever since. Many years later Roland was very fortunate to have met and befriended an accomplished local artist who introduced him to the world of acrylic painting. This artist allowed Roland to visit him periodically to watch him create his artworks. Roland was moved to the point of attempting to use this colorful media himself. It turned out to be a match made in Heaven, literally. He realized that God gave him a gift that was not acquired through higher learning but by a higher calling. 

Many of Roland’s works include his renditions of artworks from artist he has come to admire from both past and present such as Michael Angelo, John Biggers, and Thomas Kinkade. These pieces were created primarily as a testament to prove to himself and others his level of accomplishment in comparison. Since then, Roland has been creating wonderful landscapes, patriotic portraits, vibrant abstracts and spiritual surrealisms that have adorned the walls of his home.

“I have a talent that I was instinctually born with that gave me a unique skillset and ability. This talent is set apart from knowledge in that it was not a learned behavior but strengthened through practice. The Bible tells us that we are all born with distinct talents and gifts that set us apart from each other. I discovered that talent long ago that God blessed me with and it will be used to glorify and edify him so that I may experience a full life. Through this talent I believe I have found my unique calling in life”.