Rosemary Burn
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→ 2025, Wales Contemporary. Chelsea Barracks, The Waterfront Gallery Milford Haven
→ 2024, Society of Wildlife Artists Exhibition, Mall Galleries London
→ 2024, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries London
→ 2024, Gallery representation, Rise Art
→ 2024, Danger Zone, Aedra Fine Arts, online
→ 2024, Pensychnant Open Exhibition
→ 2024, Worlds Investable Female Artists, Opulent Art Gallery and Artsy
→ 2024, Fiesta! Artcan
→ 2024, Shh, the Artcan secret auction, online
→ 2024, Represented by Opulent Art Gallery at Artsy
→ 2024, Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, Mall Galleries London
→ 2024, Art on a postcard auction, The Bomb Factory, Covent Garden London
→ 2023, ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London
→ 2023, Society of Wildlife Artists 60th anniversary exhibition, Mall Galleries London
→ 2023, 10th Art Gemini Prize finalists exhibition, Zari Gallery London
→ 2023, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
→ 2023, Art on a postcard, The AOP Gallery, online
→ 2023, Anniversary 10x10, ArtCan, Hansard Studio London
→ 2023, The Power of Pencil, ArtCan 10th anniversary exhibition
→ 2023, Figurative Art spring exhibition, Open Gallery Halifax
→ 2022, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries London
→ 2022, Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
→ 2022, Green and Stone Summer Online Exhibition
→ 2022, Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London
→ 2022, International Art Fair, Paris
→ 2022, Group exhibition, Van Gogh Gallery, Madrid
→ 2022, Artexpo New York
→ 2021, Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries London
→ 2021, Alessandro Berni Gallery New York. Gallery representation
→ 2021, Reflections, Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome
→ 2021, Canvas - Mixing Identities, London International Art Fair, THE LINE, contemporary art space, London
→ 2021, Infinite Dreams, Contemporary Art Curator magazine online exhibition
→ 2020, Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London,
→ 2020, Featured in House and Garden magazine
→ 2020, shortlisted to exhibit, BP portrait award, National Portrait Gallery, London
→ 2019, Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
→ 2019, Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence
→ 2018, Royal Society of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
→ 2018, Gallery representation, New Blood Art
→ 1990, Group exhibition, The Showroom, London
→ 1984, International Garden Festival, International Garden Festival, Liverpool
→ 1984, Christie's Inaugural, Christie's, London
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→ 2024, Best Art Awards (still life) honourable mention award
→ 2024, Placed on reserve list for the RP Critical Writing Prize
→ 2024, Longlisted for the Women in Art Emerging Art prize
→ 2023, Shortlisted for the 10th Art Gemini Prize
→ 2023, 2nd place runner up, Teravarna 7th landscape international competition, and Artists Grant awards
→ 2023, interview with James Thomas, BBC Radio Wiltshire
→ 2023, Collectors Art Prize, Contemporary Art Curators magazine
→ 2023, Featured in Pomegranate magazine, London
→ 2021 Featured at Arterynyc online gallery
→ 2020, Featured in House and Garden magazine
→ 2020, Artist of the future award, Contemporary art curator magazine
→ 2002, Featured in the book ‘City Racing, the life and times of an artist run gallery’
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I grew up in Essex and have been drawing and painting for as long as I remember, as well as playing the piano from the age of five. I went on to achieve an MA in sculpture from Chelsea School of Art, London, and an LTCL performers diploma in the piano from Trinity College of Music, London.
Art and music are my life and I spend most of my day in the studio painting, or practising and teaching the piano and violin.
When I look at the history of art I see a tapestry woven with human life - its conflicts, wonder, boredom, moments of silence, thoughts... corners from the minds of the artists who created the artworks. I am aware of this within my creative process, and I aim to translate everyday visual experiences into something which will present a story worth returning to many times.
Part of my intention is to make unusual the usual (or make usual the unusual as I have sometimes been misquoted!) the everyday visual experiences which we all encounter and mostly dismiss as unimportant, not worth a second glance. The works are crafted from moments; those snippets of time from which I can find a story in the background, such as 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, and I am in search of truth and beauty. 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 remote controlled leg of lamb, a huge flying saucepan which had come to rest skewered by the sword of a swordfish held upright by a fisherman (both plaster casts).
Although my life is a busy one with many commitments - I am also a classical pianist, (and I teach the piano and violin), not being creative in some way every day has never been possible for me. I love every minute!
