Rosanna Gardner studied at the Hampstead School of Art and the St Ives School of Painting. She previously worked at Kindred Studios and has shown her work in London and St Ives, Cornwall. She is a member of the MAC|RAGS Art Collective.
Rosanna came to painting having worked as a writer and translator. (Her translation, 'Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes. Stories from a Silver Age' was published by I.B. Tauris in October 2017.) Courses in botanical illustration at the Chelsea Physic Garden and in natural history illustration at Oxford preceded her joining the Hampstead School of Art, and later the St Ives School of Painting Porthmeor Programme.
She has been interested in themes of human endeavour, such as the triumphs and setbacks experienced by boxers and dancers. She has also worked on many successful projects with model-maker Fred Phipps, from a mural for children to a snow-globe containing a model of the Triumph Arch of Palmyra. Until recently she worked at Kindred Studios in Kilburn. She designed the logo for the Hubert Butler Essay prize and illustrated ‘The Pool and Other Poems’ by Anthony Gardner, published by Starhaven Press in 2018.
Exhibitions
Ebb and Flow, Crypt Gallery, St Ives 2024
WWW Gallery, London, 2023
Reunion, Hampstead School of Art, 2023
Connected, Crypt Gallery St Ives, 2023
Breathing Space, Crypt Gallery St Ives, 2022
refocus: end of year show
Advanced Course Exhibition 2018
Hampstead School of Art
Kindred Open Studios
November 2018, June 2018 and November 2017
arc: end of year show
Advanced Course Exhibition 2017
Hampstead School of Art
Foundation 2016 Course Exhibition
end of year show
Hampstead School of Art