Anthology

Rosie Burns returns to Harbour House for her eighth solo exhibition.
Her eclectic body of work typically includes printmaking, ceramics, woodcarving, and painting in oils and watercolours. This year she has particularly been focusing on oil paintings, and working from the life model in drawing and printmaking remains as much of a passion as ever. In her printmaking, birds are becoming a recurring theme.

2012 was a year of changes for Rosie, and she has moved from North Devon to Southend on Sea.
“This radical move from the woolly fringes of the North Devon coast to a much more densely populated seaside town will, I am sure, affect the work I produce. My magpie tendencies for collecting images will take me in new directions. I have begun a series of reflective paintings – shop windows with the street reflected, the sky in the beach sheen at low tide. I'm sure the industrial horizon and funfair facade of Southend will add a new edge to my fascination with the places where the sky and the sea meet the land.”

Since last summer's exhibition at Harbour House, Rosie has shown work at 20 or more venues in the south west, and as far afield as Cambridge. She has also sought out a number of 'non art' spaces to display her work. She has installed two dozen ceramic doves in the trees in the gardens at RHS Rosemoor. Rosie continues to be active with arts groups and workshops, with a banner workshop in the 2012 Appledore Visual Arts Festival, and workshops and streetside demonstrations for Bideford Bay Creatives, and she is now a member of Studio 11, a co-operative of artists in Southend, and hopes to start a life drawing group and workshop.
Visitors to Harbour House earlier in 2013 will have been impressed by Make Space, Rosie's studio/gallery project at Harbour House: http://www.harbourhouse.org.uk/gallery-rburnsstudiogallery13.html

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For more information visit http://www.harbourhouse.org.uk/gallery-rburns13.html