Grounded in my own wellness journey, the alchemy of my nature centered healing Art will transform your homes into healing sanctuaries. 

 

My earliest memory is of my Science Teacher Dad pricking my finger, smearing the blood on a glass slide and lifting me up to look at the cells moving through the lens of a microscope. The second is of him showing us how to dissect a frog my brother and I had caught together at age 3 and I became hooked on the study of natural science and chemistry early on.

 

I borrowed the family camera at age 11 to go wandering through my Montreal neighbourhood trying to capture the feeling the Fall colours on the trees gave me. At age 16, I won an art competition for the new school board logo and earned the Fine Arts award upon graduation. Photography and drawing have always been the foundation of my creative pursuits along with a love for Printmaking that developed during my time studying under Mircho & Janina Jakobow at the University of the Fraser Valley. 

 

When I was a sick kid, I felt compelled to paint my dreams and I would wake at night to pull the dresser from the wall and paint upon the side just to slide it back before anyone awoke. Painting my emotions out became a refuge and I eventually studied Expressive Arts Therapy as a way to enable myself to help others find a sanctuary through creative activity as well.

 

I continue to explore my environment, wandering through the neighbourhood taking photos of whatever strikes my eye. As I do so, I also collect the fallen leaves and lichens from the surrounding flora to transform their chemistry into the artistic medium of Botanical mono-printing. My work combines the tradition of Guy Debord’s Derive, Psychogeography and Edmund Husserl’s concept of Phenomenology into my own unique take on our relationship with environment, creativity and human healing.

 

Visual Artist & Certified Expressive Arts Therapist, Rose critically investigate interstices between creative activity, trauma, transformation and aesthetics. Her paintings and photographs raise awareness around Wellness, Allopathic & Natural Medicine and the health of the Environment. Grounded in a 40 year career in photography, Rose combines Botanical mono-printing, natural dyes and recycled textiles into mixed media paintings, collages & commissions. Recent subject matter embraces images of the natural world; trees, water, birds, fish, animals and leaves, the healing qualities that they embody, the extinctions they face and their symbolic associations with humanity. Projects incorporating Biophilia, Phenomenology, and Environmental Conservation are representative of this artist’s perspective. 

 

Rose is a Canada Council Creative Research Grant recipient, Graduate of Emily Carr University, Certified Expressive Arts Therapist, member of Kickstart - Society for Disability Arts & Culture Vancouver and the Art Society of Trinidad & Tobago.