Solo Exhibitions

2021, Amalgam, The Space Theatre, London

1991, City Racing, London 

Awards, publications

2023, Shortlisted for the 10th Art Gemini Prize

2023, 2nd place runner up, Teravarna 7th landscape international competition, and Artists Grant awards

2023, interview with James Thomas, BBC Radio Wiltshire

2023, Collectors Art Prize, Contemporary Art Curators magazine

2023, Featured in Pomegranate magazine, London

2021 Featured at Arterynyc online gallery

2020, Featured in House and Garden magazine

2020, Artist of the future award, Contemporary art curator magazine

2002, Featured in the book ‘City Racing, the life and times of an artist run gallery’

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024, Shh, the Artcan secret auction, online

2024, Represented by Opulent Art Gallery at Artsy

2024, Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, Mall Galleries London

2024, Art on a postcard auction, The Bomb Factory, Covent Garden London

2023, ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London

2023, Society of Wildlife Artists 60th anniversary exhibition, Mall Galleries London

2023, Shortlisted artists 10th Art Gemini Prize exhibition, Zari Gallery London

2023, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

2023, Art on a postcard, The AOP Gallery, online

2023, Anniversary 10x10, ArtCan, Hansard Studio London

2023, The Power of Pencil, ArtCan 10th anniversary exhibition

2023, Figurative Art spring exhibition, Open Gallery Halifax

2022, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries London

2022, Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral

2022, Green and Stone Summer Online Exhibition

2022, Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London

2022, International Art Fair, Paris

2022, Group exhibition, Van Gogh Gallery, Madrid

2022, Artexpo New York

2021, Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries London

2021, Alessandro Berni Gallery New York. Gallery representation

2021, Tom Zaw Fine Art, Hoddesdon Herts, Gallery representation

2021, Reflections, Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome

2021, Canvas - Mixing Identities, London International Art Fair, THE LINE, contemporary art space, London 

2021, Infinite Dreams, Contemporary Art Curator magazine online exhibition

2020, Royal Institute of oil painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London,

2020, Featured in House and Garden magazine

2020, shortlisted to exhibit, BP portrait award, National Portrait Gallery, London 

2019, Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 

2019, Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence 

2019, Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition, Gallerie du Marche Prestige, Montreux, Switzerland

2018, Royal Society of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 

2018, Gallery representation, New Blood Art

1990, Group exhibition, The Showroom, London 

1984, International Garden Festival, International Garden Festival, Liverpool 

1984, Christie's Inaugural, Christie's, London 

Artist Statement

Part of my intention is to make unusual the usual; the everyday visual experiences which we all encounter and mostly dismiss as unimportant, not worth a second glance. The works are crafted from moments; those snippets of time and from which I can find a story in the background, such as a dripping bath tap and the light carried in the ripples, a fly on the wall, the fleeting expression on a face, a nameless place. It seems to me that these happenings underpin our existence; big events, highs and lows, come and go but the insignificant and fleeting remain and repeat, like a constant hum in the background.

The nature of each brushstroke, and the texture of the paint also play an important part in the translation of the seen, into a blurring between the representational and the semi abstract, the patterns which often escape our notice.

I work every day searching for an alchemy between paint, subject and moment. When I studied at Chelsea School of Art I was making sculpture, but the intention behind the work was similar. Works from those times include a bicycle abandoned on its side with its back wheel perpetually turning, so the scene of an accident was kept alive for an infinite length of time, a remote controlled leg of lamb, a huge flying saucepan which had come to rest skewered by the sword of a swordfish held upright by a fisherman (both plaster casts).

Although my life is a busy one with many commitments - I am also a classical pianist, (and I teach the piano), not being creative in some way every day has never been possible for me. I love every minute!

About the artist

Rosemary Burn is a British figurative painter based in the UK, whose works have been exhibited in Italy, Germany, the United States, and throughout the United Kingdom. Several of her paintings are held in notable collections. She approaches her artistic process with a sense of quietude, concerning herself with the objective examination of the present, telling stories of day to day life. In the bathwater and raindrop pieces, as well as others, there is a merging between the representational, abstraction and freedom of expression. Her compositions are created using oil paints on synthetic board and canvas.

A loaded stillness is present in many of the paintings, and the use of fluid brushstrokes and lighting enhance the sculptural, three dimensional aspect of her subjects. She has a longstanding interest in the paranormal and the possibility of other realms; other subjects of interest which are sometimes evident within the paintings are transitory states of existence (melting, freezing, evaporation), and time.

Rosemary studied sculpture at Chelsea School of Art, London, gaining an MA in fine art.  She also studied the piano at Trinity College of Music, London, and is an accomplished classical pianist with an LTCL performers diploma

Although only relatively recently becoming a painter, she has been included several prestigious exhibitions at the Mall Galleries, London, Florence Biennale 2019, London International Art Fair 2020, and Wells Art Contemporary 2022. Her work is held in notable collections around the world .