Behind what might seemingly conform to a harmonious and pleasing aesthetic lies an acknowledgement of the beauty present in all of life’s facets, even, and especially in those with which we may shy away from. Her work is full of minute, laboured detail and often involves a history of many images layered one over another as she endeavours to provoke in the viewer a recognition of the unrestricted elements of an image, to combat that tendency to neglect one’s true and basic self and thus to question what is beautiful… in turn she attempts to gain control over the chaos.

An education rich in illustration and the unexpected has inspired Rosanna with an appetite for communicating her deep inner spaces. Having had to follow a very indirect path early on, her visual world became focused on, and enriched by exploring the dichotomy of beauty and its most base forms within nature. To explore these issues further she immersed herself in the study of fin de siècle writers such as Huysmans, Baudelaire and Mirabeau, and less explicitly, for fear of censorship, in the works of the illustrators of enchantment like Aubrey Beardsley and Harry Clarke. As a result, Victorian society and its “fog” of suppression became fascinating to her, as did the collections of curiosities, which became fashionable in continental Europe at that time.


Born in Brighton and having begun her studies there Rosanna moved to Paris in 2008 where along side her painting practice, she acted as a freelance art director for an independent music label, studied at Parsons School of art and design and assisted sculptor Gregory Ryan. Recently returned to England she is now based in London.




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