Dale Roberts Encaustic

A lifelong dialogue with the visible world.

“At it’s core, my work is an editing process referencing that which has been created. My hope it to reveal something a casual observer might overlook, something perhaps beautiful or even poignant.”

  • "When I first met the artist Dale Roberts in 2010 at a show of his encaustic paintings at Philadelphia's Rosenfeld Gallery, I realized that there was something very special about this kind and talented man. In my opinion, there is no one in the Philadelphia area who paints better than Dale."

    John Thorton

    Philadelphia 2014

  • "It is as if the body of the world were pressed into the picture's magical surface to become the beloved's second skin."

    Scott Noel on Roberts’ Exhibition at Rosenfeld Gallery

    Philadelphia, 2004

  • "I started showing Dale Roberts' work twenty years ago after he graduated from Tyler School of Art...I have rarely seen such an enriching interplay between the development of a personal pictorial aesthetic with the exploration and mastery of a chosen media."

    Richard Rosenfeld

    Philadelphia, 2007

  • "The best painters working from observation connect us with a world we know but have not fully seen. Dale Roberts' paintings begin with unexpected perspectives on familiar bits of the urban and suburban scene...The surprises in Roberts' point of view awaken the viewer to the act of seeing, and one can almost imagine the artist exploring the margins of man-made space for arresting constellations of land, sky, architecture, and light."

    Scott Noel

    Philadelphia, 2004