Arise
Pyrography wood-burning pen on paper - 70 x 55 cm
Escape for a Moment
Pyrography wood-burning pen on paper - 62 x 96 cm
Garland
Pyrography wood-burning pen on paper - 72 x 56 cm
Joy is Fleeting
Pyrography wood-burning pen on paper - 85 x 75 cm
Rhythm of Life
Pyrography wood-burning pen on paper - 90 x 73 cm
Rising
Pyrography wood-burning pen and paint on wood - 94 x 34 cm
Stillness
Pyrography wood-burning pen on paper - 95 x 70 cm
You
Pyrography wood-burning pen on paper - 68 x 94 cm
I am a figurative artist, exhibiting since 2011 around the UK and internationally.
I studied at NUA on the foundation course and graduated in 2008 on the BA (Hons) Drawing & Applied Arts from University of the West of England, Bristol. I have also been attending life-drawing classes since the age of 13.
I explore themes in my drawings of emotional and physical journeys that we make through life. Each experience is as important as the next: they cannot be separated. The past informs the present.
My drawings show figures in motion. I like my work to represent the dance of life, where there is a real sense of movement and animation. I work on varying scales, sometimes life-size figures, using pencil, wood-burning pen (known as pyrography) or watercolour ink. Drawing with a wood-burning pen, so the lines are seared onto the paper, creates beautiful varying sepia tones.
Drawing for me is like a meditation. I follow a line and have a sense of what I want to create. Sometimes I see where a line will go; at others, it will lead me.
Rosie's Website: www.rosiewinn.com