Artist Statement

Digital art is fascinating. I use a mixed media of digital art so basically that means using 3d renders, photographs and creating elements in 2d. It’s like playing god. The universe is not the limit here, especially as realism and art gets so mixed up, one never knows what art is and what is real. I make art out of the mad colours that life gives me.

My style is varied – I create fantasy images playing around with light and using animals that have human personalities. Each one is cheeky, curious. In most of my artwork, there is always something to discover or to just sit and look like. They are peaceful. I try not to link issues with art. This is fantasy, where one can look at it, and forget the outside world. I guess that comes out of my experience with Aelbert Cuyp’s A road near the River. I can sit in front of that painting for hours. It speaks to me. I want may art to do that to those who view my art. I also do a lot of black and white imagery too. In fact, a few years ago, I did only black and white, and slowly over the years, added in a spot of colour and now there is a lot of colour. Why? I don’t know. Art grows, it never stays stagnant. It grows as the artist discover themselves and the artist’s soul and heart gets involved in the art piece. I also love black and white photography. It’s classy. It speaks more than colour and it belongs to where rhodium belongs.

My beginnings I started decades ago – 3d renders with very little post work. That was hard to do for rendering can take ages depending on a lot of things especially reflection and refraction in the case of water. I burnt through 2 or 3 laptops! A few years ago, I started fiddling around with 2d, and as time went by, I’ve been growing – working with digital mixed media. I find it gives me a lot of freedom. If I want mountains a specific way, I model and render in 3d, bringing it into 2d and work with that. Or render a cup and saucer just at the right angle that I need it to be! Sometimes, they are completely 2d, working with photos, manipulating them, creating environments, creating skies and clouds out of multiple layers etc.

Inspiration Hahaha..I get asked that a lot too. I don’t know. I guess it comes from emotions, not just nature or anything tangible. It’s what I want to feel or desire or what I am already feeling. I know a lot of my art work portrays freedom in some form. I start with an idea, but get completely lost in it, that time, eating don’t exist. I begin with a rough idea of what I want my art piece to be, but as it imagination runs, art runs. It’s like the wind blowing a feather.

JWM Turner and the Dutch renaissance golden age painters are my idols. And Dali.

Tangible art: I print on archive paper or canvas sitting with the printer to get it just the right colour I want. What I love about this is that I can double the size if the clients want it bigger or even decrease it! I also am not stuck to printing on paper or canvas – so creativity can go absolutely wild. The canvas limits that the painter has, I do not have. I can print on cloth, or acrylic. I print limited editions of any art work and if commissioned, it is just that one.

Clients/marketing I create art pieces because I love it. Am a horrible marketing person. Seriously. So though everyone tells me to sell my art work, and I would love to, in my tiny world of being a museum worker and my art, marketing isn’t my priority and anyway, whenever I have tried, I have failed horribly. I have had a few solo exhibitions in India and group exhibs in UK – but the art market still want canvas and paint. There have been a few international clients - US, UK, Singapore and I think it was Germany or Poland.

Digital art is still nouveau art, a sort of art that the buying art world can’t understand and therefore, shy away from. It’s still too new a medium. The computer can do anything, they say. That’s not art and you can make a million copies, is their reasoning. I’ve been to numerous international art fairs and digital art is always the one that does badly. There are very few galleries that accept digital art. It’s a lack of understanding how digital art works, that created this issue. The computer is the medium, just like canvas and paint. The digital artist still has to use his/her skills, his/her imagination to create snow, or rain, to put in his/her thoughts or art into physical form that the viewer can see. What one sees on the screen is the intangible art work and printing it on paper of canvas makes it as tangible as a painting.

Because of this lack of understanding, buyers of digital art are few; an enigma for one will spend millions on a photograph – which has been shot by a camera and printed on paper. Yet, a photographer cannot always command what is in his shot, where as a digital artist has that liberty – just like a painter

How to find me: People can get to me via my Instagram - rosie.artist . All my art is up on Instagram as I use it as a portfolio rather than for likes or followers.