The End of Year Show
17th November 2018 to 3rd January 2019
Rosanne Barr
Rosanne Barr was born in 1981 in the village of Gartocharn on the
southern shores of Loch Lomond and whilst still in her teens, she became
Gold Medallist at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Galleries youth exhibition.
After school, she attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in
Dundee, graduating in 2003 with First Class Honours. After her studies,
she exhibited in London at the British Design Centre and at The Mall
Galleries where she was awarded a Licentiate of Distinction by the
Society of Designer Craftsmen. In 2009 Rosanne was shortlisted for the
Barclays TSB Jolomo Landscape awards and since then her work has been
selected for the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of
The Fine Arts and Paisley Art Institute. Rosanne currently exhibits her
work widely across the UK with paintings in private collections around
the world. A busy full-time artist, she now lives and works in
Milngavie, her garden studio lying close to Allander Water, the gateway
to the West Highland Way and the Scottish Highlands.
Rosanne creates tranquil and evocative memory-scapes. Her paintings are
imagined places which she calls her 'Lands of Escape', but are based on
her direct experiences in North West Scotland and Orkney, where she
regularly visits with her young family. She is drawn to the remoteness
of these areas with their immense skies, seeking out places to visit
with no other people so that she can sit and contemplate the peace and
quiet and take in the landscape and sounds around her.
Working in oils, Rosanne loves to get lost in her painting. Whilst on
location, she chooses not to sketch or take photographs, feeling that
these would tie her down too much to paint what she has recorded. She
prefers to paint freely from her memories to create more spontaneous
pieces, incorporating texture and different effects through a variety of
brushes and palette knives, often leaving individual brush marks on her
painting for effect. As a result, her distinctive abstract style
heightens colours, simplifies shapes and blends lines, emanating a sense
of peace and tranquility.
