Working purely in watercolour, enjoying its translucency, subtlety and unpredictability,Rosemary’s work has an emphasis on colour and individuality. The vibrant, translucent watercolour paintings echo her interest in complex patterns of shape, light, colour and texture. Often it is an unusual viewpoint or subject matter that inspires her and she finds that watercolour is the perfect medium to capture the effects of light, delicacy of flowers and luminosity of dark vibrant shadows.
For Rosemary it is the magic as colours intermingle, pushing and pulling as they flow together which produces an excitement full of possibilities.
She works with a limited palette allowing the painting to evolve using many layers of wet into wet pure watercolour to give a unity and living colour throughout a wide range of subject matter. Her contemporary figurative work is produced both in her studio and outside on location here in the UK and abroad.
In 2005 she became a full member of the society of Women Artists and won the Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award at their annual exhibition that year. She has exhibited for several years at the Mall Galleries with the Royal Society of Marine Artists and R I. In 2005 and 2007 she won the Derwent Artist Magazine Award at Patchings. Besides being a member of the Maritime Art Group and Borderlands Artist Consortium, I run several watercolour classes and courses throughout the year.
