Welcome to my online gallery! I am a professional painter, teacher and amateur photographer living in the Montreal area.
A desire to communicate a love of nature and an early aptitude for drawing started me on course for a life of artistic endeavor. Since then I’ve been inspired by travel to Asia and Europe and studies in painting and life drawing at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
I've had the good fortune to be able to spend days and months wandering in the wild places of Canada, and it has made a deep and lasting impression on me.
I paint and draw figures, portraits, abstract and especially landscapes. My technique is based on a traditional method of layering opaque and transparent colours. I try to create paintings that are sensual and give the feeling of being immersed in the colours and patterns of our natural world.
While mostly painting in a figurative style, I use a wide variety of techniques and mediums.
Over the years, I have exhibited in Canada, Japan and the U.S. and have work in private and corporate collections.
Presently I'm working on a forest series. There are scenes from the temperate rainforests of Haida Gwaii on the western coast of Canada, the eastern deciduous forests of North America, the boreal and the mountains of Kyushu in Japan. I've just come back from Dominica where there is one of the last untouched wilderness areas in the islands of the Caribbean. Now working on a series of paintings from this wonderful place.
COLLECTIONS
Hondo High School, Japan
Fiducie Desjardins
Ronsco Inc.
Bell Mobilite Cellulaire
Lallonde, Miller and Associates
Produits Forestiers Alliance
Lundbeck Canada
Merrill Lynch
Elantis
Fonds Mutuel Cartier
Wealth Management Group
Auberge Shalom, Montreal
Hespia House, Saint John, NB
Women's Shelter, Queen Charlotte City, BC
Group Exhibits
2009, 2011 Atelier Circulaire, Montreal
2011 Campbell Art Gallery, Westmount, Quebec
2007 Ouvrir la Voie, Musee des maitres et artisans du Quebec
Art Bridge, Joint Exhibit for Iraqi and North American
artists, California, U.S.A.
1995-2003 Danielle Lambert Galleries, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1994 Portraits International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1993 Sodarco Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1991 Town Gallery, Fredericton, N.B. Canada
Aids Benefit Exhibit, Fredericton
1991, 1989 Marion McCain Juried Exhibit
Beaverbrook Gallery, Fredericton, N.B., Canada
1988 Chess Art Exhibit
Aitken Exhibition Centre, Saint John, N.B., Canada
1986 �Hope for Ethiopia� Art Show and Sale
Saint John, N.B., Canada
Solo Exhibits
2006 Queen Bee�s Gallery, Queen Charlotte City, B.C., Canada
1993 City Gallery, Saint John, N.B., Canada
1992 Jun Gallery, Hondo, Japan
1989 Aitken Exhibition Centre, Saint John, NB, Canada
Graphic and other work
-Marine Disaster and courtroom sketches for CBC Television
-Portrait commissions
-Mural for World Chess Festival
-Posters, illustrations for advertising
Rose Wark joined Pixels.com Licensing on February 25th, 2011.
