Rose is a large scale oil-painter currently working and residing in Newcastle. The subjects of her paintings often revolve around ideas of fear, ritual and those uneasy moments of waking at 3:00 am. Rose seeks to make her viewers feel dominated in a space by using atmospheric sounds, lighting, and combining natural sculptures and paintings. The expressive quality of minimal mark-making and the varied tones of glazes allow the figures in hrt paintings to become alive and vibrate within the atmosphere they are allowed to live in. Rose mostly paint with rags, her fingers and large brushes to allow herself more freedom in her painting technique. Occasionally she works with wax, shaping swirling patterns into gothic archways; otherworldly thresholds beyond what we know. The archway is a recurring motif within her current body of work. Using natural materials has become a very new and exciting part of her practice, and a completely new phase of working within the themes she is interested in. The organic material is collected to create ritualistic offerings, inviting the spectator to view what was once decaying matter as a valuable artefact. Currently what she has been building in her practice is a collection of works that don’t directly link to each other but serve as historical snippets of stories from a parallel dimension. Much like Amedeo Modigliani said: ‘What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race’.
