Talia Roberts was born in 1997 in Hollywood, Florida surrounded by a vibrant, tropical landscape and culture. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Psychology in 2019 from Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She studied abroad at the University of Otago in New Zealand and she spent all of her free time outside, backpacking around South Island. She immediately returned to New Zealand after graduation to explore the country for a few months. In 2020, Talia moved to Western Montana, finding awe and inspiration in the heights and open expanses of the Rocky Mountain topography. It was during her years living in Montana when she began making her own pigments using a mortar and pestle and other hand tools using the rocks from her immediate environment.
Roberts made a site-specific painting using pigments she made from rocks, soil and native sagebrush leaves from the land in 2021 for a private event with OpenAIR in Moiese, Montana. In 2022, Talia exhibited her series, 7 Celestial Days of the Week, which displays oil paintings that utilize Montana river rocks as pigment, at the Missoula Art Museum in a group exhibition titled Imaging The Sacred: Birdie Hall, Talia Roberts, Daphne Sweet, April Werle (Fall-Winter 2022-23). In 2023 the series, 7 Celestial Days of the Week (2022) sold to a private collection in Big Sky, Montana. Talia has exhibited her newest series, A Reflection of the Solar Year in Twelve Full Moons, at Echo Arts Gallery in Bozeman, MT (Spring-Summer 2024). Talia’s work has been displayed at the Holter Museum of Art, and has sold to private collectors across Montana and throughout the United States. Talia is now living in the Northern Green Mountains of Vermont.
