Yesterday I visited the Rosie Sanders: Secret Letters Exhibition at Jonathan Cooper's Park Walk Gallery just off the Fulham Road in Chelsea. The exhibition finishes on Saturday and I very much recommend you try and get to see it if you can before it finishes. Her work is simply stunning! There's a very big incentive for those coming to London for the SBA Annual Exhibition to also make a visit to the gallery to see this one too. Gallery hours are 10am – 6.30pm on weekdays and 11am – 4pm on Saturday so it's definitely possible to fit two botanical art exhibitions into one day! The exhibition focuses in particular on large and small paintings of roses - painted in a less conventional way - from the rear or as they have reached a stage where they are past their best but nonetheless marvellous convoluted structures. The box with the secret letters - one of which is given to the buyer of each painting - is displayed in the window The exhibition also includes
I think many of the more precise botanical artists might be surprised by Rosie's techniques. Rather than using dry brushwork, it's her practice to work much more directly - wet in wet and mixing her colours on the paper. She's extremely adept at developing very convincing structures through masterful use of tone and colour. Her work is not matted. Rather the deckle edged paper is float mounted within a narrow quality frame. The paper she uses is either
Prices of paintings are for the serious collector - one of whom is Shirley Sherwood. I arrived at the gallery after a visit to her home nearby where I admired her new acquisition of a splendid smaller painting of a very red rose past its best. I took some short video shots as well yesterday and will include the video in this post after I've done the editing - which always takes a little time. Sales have been very brisk - Rosie's work is always very popular! I counted sixteen paintings of the 26 paintings in the exhibition sold to date. Prices of those paintings still available can be seen on the website and are in five figures for the larger paintings and £3,800 for the smaller paintings. For those who couldn't get to see the exhibition - this is my video of a walk round the exhibition. It starts outside in Park Walk, shows you the window of the gallery with the box of secrets and then looks around the walls on the ground floor and lower floor. Rosie exhibits with Jonathan on a regular basis - typically a solo show every one to two years which always do well as her work is very collectible. You can see all currently available work on the gallery website.
You can also see her work in her book Rosie Sanders' Flowers: A Celebration of Botanical Art (affiliate link). Gallery: Jonathan Cooper, 20 Park Walk, London SW10 0AQ Bus: 211, 11 and 22 on the Kings Road or 14 and 414 on the Fulham Road Tube: South Kensington and Sloane Square My previous reviews of her work and exhibitions:
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11/10/2017 03:08:27 pm
Dear Katherine
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12/10/2017 12:39:18 pm
Yes - Rosie uses charcoal. I'm assuming she adds it last so that it does not mix with her watercolour while she is painting and then fixes it so it doesn't move.
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Pradaxina Seetha
27/1/2020 07:29:37 am
Hello,
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27/1/2020 09:43:49 am
On my photos, I can see the grain of the paper - so I assume it's NOT (which is also what I recall Rosie telling me she painted on).
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