Memory is
still-life art in the making – the concept at the heart of Rosanne's
Barr's work. In a word, flashback.
Rosanne
explores and captures the mood, emotion, colours of a place, a landscape
filtered through the sands of lapsed time.
These are imagined
places - her Lands of Escape - but based on direct experience of the
Atlantic seaboard of North West Scotland and Orkney Orkney; real landscapes of
hill-top, ocean and immense, free sky. Places she continues
to visit with her young family.
Heightened
colours of sunrise, sunset, amidst calm and storm; simplified shape and
blending lines are the basis of her distinctive abstract style.
Rosanne
Barr was born in 1981 in the village of Gartocharn on the southern shores of
Loch Lomond. While still in her teens, she became Gold Medallist at
Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Galleries youth exhibition.
Graduating
in 2003 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee with First Class
Honours, 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 2008 her first major
solo show Lands of Home and Venture at The Green Gallery was a
sell-out: ……with much critical acclaim for her: “bold
brushed landscapes, deftly mixing realism, impressionism, and a dash of the
Colourists. Always inspired by Scotland’s landscapes”. [The Herald 8.03.08]
In 2009
Rosanne was shortlisted for the Barclays TSB Jolomo Award. Her work has been
selected for the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine
Arts and Paisley Art Institute.
Rosanne
was selected to be the Resident International Artist at the Great Gulf Arts
Festival 2012. This opportunity included giving lectures and demos to
schools and the university campus, exhibiting at this major arts festival in
Florida, USA.
In 2017
she was invited to Sardinia for an Artist residency, painting ‘plein air’ with
leading artists from across Europe.
Rosanne
exhibits widely across the UK with paintings in private collections around the
world. A busy full-time artist, she now lives in Milngavie. Her garden studio
lies close to Allander Water, the gateway to the West Highland Way
and the Scottish Highlands.