Roseta santiago biography

At the age of five, Roseta Santiago remembers her father, telling her to “color inside the lines.”  A prophecy she would realize in Santa Fe New Mexico 50 years later.

Roseta Santiago was born and raised in Washington, DC. Her Filipino father met her mother during the war while serving in the US Navy for 35 years.

Mystery and Light engulf the unique Western and Asian artifacts and people that are the subjects in her repertoire.  Signed ‘Santiago,’ her paintings exhibit precision, beauty and integrity she developed from that early childhood lesson.

She is a master storyteller about the images she paints. She is constantly inspired with the beauty of the simplest of lines, the humblest of creations, and the beauty of faces with character created from within.. Her day of painting is filled with wonder and questions about these lives and the  makers of the artifacts.

Experiencing this magical journey each day is "like a day dream or "'dream time'