Roberta Millman-Ide

Roberta Millman-Ide was born in Southern California, lived her earliest childhood years on one of the Hawaiian Islands, and then spent the rest of her school years in Southern California. She was known to draw on anything and everything as a child. Her bedroom walls were covered with rolls of newsprint to accommodate her ever-changing wall murals; and, pads of drawing paper were sent with her to school to save their desks from her ‘artistic touch’. She spent her High School years focusing on her ‘second love’…that of music performance (playing flute and piccolo). Then, in 1980, while attending California State University in Long Beach (CSULB) as a ‘music performance major’, Roberta was accepted in to the Graphic/Advertising Design Program. This was a two-year program of which only 25 students (out of hundreds of applicants) were juried in. In 1982 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art and went on to spend the next decade working as an Art Director for two prestigious Advertising agencies located in Southern California. In 1993, Roberta (along with her husband and two sons) moved to Northern New Jersey. There, she established her own Graphic Design company producing logos, new product concepts and commercial storyboards for various clients; all the while, continuing to create her fine art on canvas, as well as for wall murals. In 2006, she decided to permanently trade in her markers for her paintbrushes dedicating herself, solely, to her fine art. Her work is often inspired by her dreams, taking the chaos of a dreamscape and simplifying the image to convey its underlying meaning. Inspired by various artists throughout art history, Roberta’s art has taken elements from the Mannerism style of the Old Masters and, then, introduces the colors and abstract forms reminiscent of contemporary artists to create a style of her own.