Rosie Jarvis
In 2022-2023 I took a course at Newlyn School of Art for a transformative year, after which I exhibited with the group at Tremenheere Sculpture Gallery. Following this I had a variety of successes being selected for the RBSA gallery prize exhibition and being longlisted for the Jackson's art prize twice. I was selected in the Rugby open and had an exhibition with two other artists at Abington Museum and The Three Hares gallery Olney. Following a residency in Monmouthshire I also curated and hung three solo exhibitions. Two of these were based on "The Humble Field", a feature of much of my work as a landscape artist looking at the field as an undervalued yet essential resource for our survival, and marked by generations of man made features in harmony with the natural landscape. The colours of the patchwork of fields as canvases in themselves has fascinated me. A trip to Scotland took my work in a new and vibrant direction responding to the Aberdeenshire landscape with an art show "Bright and Beautiful". I paint mostly in acrylics but am now exploring oils and also paint with watercolours in plein air, making sketches with pencil and biro. At the moment my work is engaging in a deeper curiosity as to how I can experiment more with materials and ways of celebrating the landscape around me.
