Rosana De Montfort

Rosana de Montfort is a native of Ostrava, who has been creating since early childhood under the influence of mentors, role models and teachers such as Karel Žaluda, Věra Špánová- Boudníková, Jiří Stejskal, David John Lloyd, Jaroslav Domiter, Giovanni Petretta and Ladislav Maria Wagner.

Her main themes of depiction are issues of civilizational continuity, technological development, emotional maturity and the relationship to values ​​that we inherit and newly construct. Her work can be characterized as imaginative realism - a distinctive painting language that connects the real with the mythical, the physical with the inner, and imagination with analytical observation of today's world. The media she uses for her paintings are mostly canvas, acrylic, oil paints, synthetics, sand and plaster, varnishes and pencils. In plastic and sculpture, she prefers materials such as expanded foam, acrylic, glass, cement, polyurethane, aluminum and wood.

From the age of 5 she attended the studio of Akad. mal. Karel Žaluda, where she continued as a pupil of the Primary School and a student of the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Ostrava. She also attended the studio of figure drawing by Jaroslav Domiter and the studio of Ladislav Maria Wagner in O...

10 years in Atelier of Karel Žaluda MFA
Art Academy Ostrava Blahoslavova
Hladnov College Ostrava
SUPŠ Ostrava- Atelier for art and Industry design
Ca' Foscari Venice - Conservation science and technology for cultural heritage CM60

recent exhibitions and projects
• 03.10.-30.11.2018 Art center Martello Tower,UK, group exhibition
• 03.08-05.08. 2018 Bílovec Castle PARCON 2018
• 21.02.-25.03. 2019 Museum and Gallery Mlejn, "Revelation" solo exhibition, curt. Eda Riedl, Ostrava
• 27.04.- 31.08. 2019 Bílovec Castle
• 01.06.- Wine bar under Pálavou, Dolní Náměstí, Olomouc,
• 01.09.-31.10. 2019 Chagall Gallery, solo exhibition, curated by Alena Stodolová
• 16.10.2019 Yacht Club, Frinton-on-Sea, UK, Group show
• 21.09.2019 Essex County ART REVIEW, UK, benefit group exhibition "Hello Harwich"
• 07.12.2019 Ceremonial unveiling of a reproduction of the original painting by Bl. Česlav Odrowas, Bílovec Castle
• 13.12.2019 Martin Café, Nový Jičín, stable expo
• 01.08.2019-01.07.2020 Petr Brandl Gallery, Prague 1
• 13.06.-31.08.2020 Bílovec Castle, solo exhibition "Timelines"
• 12.06.-03.09.2021 ROMY&ROSE, exhibition with Romana Štryncl, Bílovec Castle, curated by R.deMontfort
• 18.07.-30.10.2021 Between Worlds, Rosana and Russell de Montfort, Paintings, Kunín Castle
• 05.09.-05.10.2021 Benefit exhibition, triptych "3 Women", Skalka Monastery, Mníšek pod Brdy
• 04.09.-8.11.2021 Educational program for children at the Mikoláš Kopernik Grammar School in Bílovec
• 01.10...