שלום ואהבה Love and Peace السالم واملحبة

Rosie Burns is a painter and printmaker, she is one half of Rosie and Red Art and Leather, working from studios in Bideford, North Devon. Her work is a vibrant exploration of light, life, and the interplay between humanity and the environment. More formal oil paintings celebrate the natural world, and generate urban narratives, whilst experimental printmaking processes challenge depictions of gender, environmental concerns and push the boundaries between print and paint. Rosie initially trained as an Archaeological site and finds illustrator, she then went on to train in Devon to teach art and design in schools, she worked in state education for over 20 years. Rosie has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally for over 3 decades, participated in Art for Social Justice exhibitions in Miami, Berlin and the 2024 Venice Biennial. She is an Artivist, a pacifist and keen to use her work to engage broad audiences in issues of contemporary social justice.

The first dove piece I made, outside of extensive doodling stimulated by the rainbow and dove with an olive branch, at the end of the biblical story of Noah and the Ark in primary school – was a small dry-point engraving on a zinc plate that was used by the Bailiff of Jersey as a Christmas card in 2004.

I have always been interested in sociological structures and global interactions – I’m living and working in a time of rising political imbalance, there are so many things that influence a maker's work.

I studied anthropology – and find the divisionist ideology of the 2020s difficult and disturbing. We are all human and need water, food and shelter as a minimum to exist – this simplicity seems to have been lost to power, greed and capitalist modeling that forgets our common humanity. Without peace everything feels pretty futile, doves are a gentle artivist action to use my work to voice my pacifist intentions, humanitarianism is essential

Monoprint - Cardboard Cut with Silver Glaze

62x57cm

Framed under glass

Edition of 1