‘’Rolfe’s heavily symbolis , Giorgionesque females in lush liturgical landscapes recall the brilliant and bizarre paintings of Philipp Otto Runge. For all the panels’ eclecticism, Rolfe’s accomplished technique and skill as a colorist and draftsmen presents the viewer with a lucid, cohesive images that veil personal meaning, yet still convey the human aspiration that shaped them."

Wendy Rolfe was born and raised in Marblehead, Mass. She studied art at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco before receiving scholarships to Parson’s School of Design in New York City and Le Atelier D’Etampe in Paris, where she completed her formal studies. She returned to New York where she produced works in pastels for several years before moving to a farm in rural Iowa, where she began to work in oils. Travels to Italy and Mexico exposed Rolfe to artistic traditions that highly influenced her sense of symbolism, arrangement, and style.

In the show ‘Holy Feast" her work as a renewed sense of the "Goddess" as well as celebrating one’s ‘wholeness’ with images out of our mythical and spiritual tradition.

Rolfe’s paintings have been collected by the American Stock Exchange, MGM/UA, Shearson Lehman Brothers, C.S. Heinze foundation and Asbury Park Press among many others nationally and aboard. She has had numerous Solo exhibitions in the Midwest, California, and Santa Fe, and is currently represented by Olson/Larsen Galleries in Des Moines.