Rosy Hall

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Recently I was asked what made me choose to paint beautiful (and exotic?) women. For a number of years I worked with severely traumatised women. I can't put into words how deeply they moved, challenged and changed me, instead I paint them in as many different ways as I am able. I don't have them sitting in front of me posing, they bloom in my imagination like flowers, and are composites of the beauty I saw - rare, exotic, multi-layered ... sophisticated, rebellious, glamorous, fragile, soft or a mix of any and all of these, but what they are to me, is emblematic of women who survive, and with the right support and encouragement – thrive.

For the rest, I have been drawing with ink on paper since very young and though I have always been seduced by colour, I return again and again to the black and white of ink for its discipline, demands and clean lines. Because my ink work is so detailed I foresee the day when I will not be able to draw in that way any longer, so for now I'll keep doing what I can as the ideas flow. Digital art allows me to paint in all the ways I would have physically but with far greater freedom and no wasted canvas/expensive paper when things don't go well. :)

My drawings and paintings, whether digital or traditional mediums, are expressions of the different ways I 'see' or feel. Fantasy has its roots in reality, surrealism in inexpressible emotion (for me), for the rest however, my enjoyment of art is diverse therefore so is my style. One thing I am realising more and more is that I love elegance of line and form, and when that isn't what dominates, colour does. A lot of my pen and ink work has been in the Art Nouveau/Art Deco style, oddly, I am only now beginning to paint these two styles I have loved for a long time. Abstract art is imaginative 'play', disciplined only after free play. That's when the culling, editing and organising begins. It's what I turn to when I feel my imagination (and my Muse) has taken a hike and left me stranded. Not such a bad thing if it leads to play :)

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