Born in 1949 in Toledo, Ohio, Roederick’s talents surfaced early. He began painting at the tender age of four, then attended the Toledo Art Museum as a guest student at the age of nine. He studied Fine Arts and Illustration at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio, where he honed his technical skills. He currently lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia with his wife, Sharron.
Roederick describes his artistic energy as “beyond inspiration”. He acknowledges that God anointed him with a unique talent—to be full of His spirit, ideas, and creativity. So strong is this inspiration that he stays on automatic drive, enabling him to effortlessly deliver that Spirit onto canvas. Roederick never experiences “artist block”, nor does he lack for ideas. Rather, he searches daily for more time to download that kaleidoscope of images and ideas stored in his mind. He states that ideas bombard him daily, that they are all around him, to the point of information overload. He feels it is his duty to sort through this vast stored knowledge and interpret its form, color, rhythm, and flow onto canvas.
Diversity of expression is apparent when viewing a body of Roederick’s work. His images are always in motion, as if striving towards the higher calling of God. The images are predominantly elongated, lyrical and rhythmic; spiritual and thought provoking; whimsical with serious undertones; dramatic and colorful. His work displays balance and harmony, but above all, like a motion picture, his paintings tell stories.
Roederick treats the human form with integrity and dignity, such that viewers may feel that his created forms speak personally to them. His abstracts challenge the eye of the most astute lover of the human form. He does not wait for inspiration to hit and then start painting. It is a gift God bestowed on him and it is an effusive process. He has the gift to visualize first, then paint what he sees, not from pictures but from what comes from within his mind, heart, and soul
