Josh Rockland

Josh Rockland creates paintings that reimagine his childhood Victorian home, using it as a lens to explore the meaning of home itself. His work blends architecture, antique objects, and portraiture into imaginative compositions with a narrative quality. Staircases, heating grates, and decorative details become both design elements and vessels of nostalgia, offering viewers a way to connect their own domestic pasts and presents with his.

In Rockland’s paintings, familiar spaces take on dreamlike qualities. Objects float, while oceans and skies spill into interiors—simultaneously comforting and disquieting. These juxtapositions build distinct visual landscapes where memory and imagination overlap, connecting his inner life with that of his audience. “You can return home,” he reflects, “but those familiar places are always changing. The spaces we have lived in haunt us, so we revisit and remake them all our lives.”

Through this process, Rockland invites viewers to step into layered environments that feel at once personal and universal. His work transforms the architectural relics of the past into living, shifting spaces of reflection and recognition.

His paintings can be viewed at joshrockland.com and on Instagram @joshrocklandart, where his work is also available for purchase.