What Happens When a Figure Skater Becomes a Painter?
In this heartfelt episode, host LouAnne Hunt welcomes Roselle Doyle a full-time artist, former world-class professional figure skater, and choreographer whose life and art are guided by motion, emotion, and light.
Born and raised in Montreal and now living on the East Coast of Newfoundland, Roselle has spent her life expressing truth through movement first on the ice and stage, and now on canvas. Viewing skating and dance as the Art of Motion, she sees the performer as the brush, the stage as the canvas, and her paintings as a natural extension of the fluid, swirling energy once carved by skate blades on ice.
Using vibrant acrylics and a signature sense of motion, Roselle creates deeply personal, almost self-portrait-like works that invite viewers into her inner world a place of reflection, inspiration, and emotional honesty.
In this conversation, she shares how creativity becomes meditation, how movement lives on beyond performance, and how stepping fully into sharing her art has required courage, mindset shifts, and trust.
Together, LouAnne and Roselle explore:
✨ Art as self-expression and soul-connection
✨ Translating movement into visual storytelling
✨ Courage, reinvention, and creative identity
✨ Finding stillness, flow, and meaning through art
Roselle explains her inner most thoughts as she created and painted her signature piece “Lunch Atop The Rock” inspired by the 1932 famous photo “Lunch Atop A Skyscraper”.
A little history:
The iconic photograph “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” was taken in 1932, during the Great Depression, high above New York City at Rockefeller Center. It shows eleven steelworkers casually eating lunch while sitting on a beam nearly 70 floors above the ground, with no safety harnesses.
At a time when jobs were scarce and fear was everywhere, these men showed up anyway, balancing risk, livelihood, and trust suspended between sky and city. The image has come to represent resilience, courage, brotherhood, and the mindset of moving forward even when nothing feels secure.
This episode is a reminder that creativity doesn’t disappear it transforms. And when we allow our experiences to move through us, they can become something beautiful.
So, pull up a seat on the playground and let this conversation move you.
Visit Roselle’s Gallery of Art: https://www.roselledoyleart.com
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RoselleDoyleArt
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roselledoyle_art
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