hive forest
by Featured artist Ro Stastny
Ro Stastny, hive forest, watercolor and ink, 18 x 12 inches, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
hive forest
Ro Stastny | SEPT 2024 | Issue 37
Artist Statement
My art has no consistency. Though I gravitate to certain colors, shapes, or subject matters more so than others, I cannot be bound to one style or one medium. I live in a state of agitation and restlessness. Everything I make is a representation of what I am feeling and what inspires me in that particular moment in time, and can never be recreated.
Ro Stastny is an artist and writer based in Seattle, Washington. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing in 2014. Her fine arts training is limited to a few classes she took in high school, but she has been a practicing artist for most of her life. She is the owner of Rowan Shade Creative, a brand design + illustration studio. Ro particularly enjoys exploring dreamlike concepts with anthropomorphic themes. She drinks her coffee black and her whiskey neat.