Rosemary Burn

Along with portraits and landscapes, I am more often than not drawn to painting still life. Although it is perhaps just painting ‘stuff’, I love its humility, and its implied human content - what is perhaps hovering beyond its parameters; a human element notable by its absence.

There is a certain poetry to be found in a dripping bath tap and the light carried in the ripples, a fly on the wall, the fleeting expression on a face, a nameless place. It seems to me that these happenings underpin our existence; big events, highs and lows, come and go but the insignificant and fleeting remain and repeat, like a constant hum in the background.

The nature of each brushstroke, and the texture of the paint also play an important part in the translation of the seen, into a blurring between the representational and the semi abstract, the patterns which often escape our notice. I work every day searching for an alchemy between paint, subject and moment. When I studied at Chelsea School of Art I was making sculpture, but the intention behind the work was similar. Works from those times include a bicycle abandoned on its side with its back wheel perpetually turning, so the scene of an accident was kept alive for an infinite length of time, a rem...

Chelsea School of Art London MA
Trinity College of Music, LTCL piano

2025, RA Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, Piccadilly London

2025, Pensnychnant Open Exhibition, Pensychnant Conservation Centre

2025, Wales Contemporary, Garrison Chapel Chelsea, The Waterfront Gallery Milford Haven

2024, Society of Wildlife Artists, Mall Galleries London

2024, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries London

2024, Art on a postcard for the Hepatitis C Trust

2024, Pensychnant Exhibition

2023, ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London

2023, SWLA 60th anniversary exhibition The Natural Eye, Mall Galleries London

2023, Art Gemini finalist exhibition, Zari Gallery London

2023, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

2023 Art on a postcard, The AOP Gallery 9th winter auction, Dreweatts

2023, second prize, 7th international landscape competition,Teravarna Gallery Los Angeles

2023, Anniversary 10x10 exhibition, ArtCan, Hansard Studio, London

2023, Collectors Art Prize, Contemporary Art Curator magazine

2023 Chroma 2, ArtCan, America Square Conference Centre, London

2023 The Power of Pencil, ArtCan 10th anniversary exhibition

2023 Group show, 'Figurative Art' - Open Gallery Halifax

2022 Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries London

2022 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral

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