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"Rosie Lawrence is exhibiting at Grand Hotel"
WHEN A PAINTING MAKES YOU FEEL CLOSE TO NATURE
The Grand Hotel is showing about twenty of Rosie Lawrence’s recent detailed masterpieces from 3-29 April still life and tuscan landscapes mostly painted “En plein air”.
This English artist,who has now been living in Florence for several decades uses a paintbrush with her own very special skill and lives her own singular dimension beyond time. She is inspired by the detailed naturalism of Corot she declares elective affinities with the impressionism of John Singer Sargent, she quotes the water colour painters of the late 1700s, and she astonishes for her intense tones which are reminiscent of Cezanne.
These Still lifes and landscapes represent a passionate dialogue with a humanised nature, with a countryside which is familiar and domestic. A farm, a vineyard, corn fields: a nature which allows us to perceive the presence of man by intuition, but from which man is physically absent.Over all this a sky which is always evident and constant, a sky in movement, captured in all its various expressive possibilities:
rarely serene, but windy, cloudy preferably after rain, when the colours of the world become more intense, the contrasts more acute, the tricks of the light made more evident by the filtered light.
Pierfrancesco Listri recently wrote about her: To aid the exposed sense of the seasons, a lively, fresh melancholy of what matures and fades,has an exellent pictorial skill which directly refers back to the grand traditions of the past by major painters, from Anguissola to Fede Galizia.The softened meteorology of daily changes is here reinforced by a timorous solemnity and by a strong flavour of manneristic knowledge”.
A pupil of Silvio Loffredo, Rosie Lawrence received her diploma at the Accademia di Belli Arti, and has had numerous personal and joint exhibitions. In 2005, in occasion of the show Realtà ed emozione, omaggio a Camille Corot in the Estense Castle in Ferrara, she received first prize, judged by both critics and public.
Tuesday 3rd April 2007 - Third page - p15 - Il Corrire di Firenze.
Nature rappresents a chance for the artist to comunicate and to trasmit an Internal joy in harmony with the invents,
values and characters present in her art.
Nicolina Bianchi, Segni D'Arte, p27 January - June 2002
“She has learned to express the great emotion that makes portraits timeless and has a mature fantasy and
lively spirit in her use of color against all the vanguards that have tried to overshadow the the noble figurative
experience. In July 2001 she participated in Le Grandi Mostre a Roma at the Barberini Palace, Rome."
AD, Architectural Digest - January 2002
"Full possession of the technical medium and great aesthetic, cultural and interpretative skill clearly presented.
Landscapes, still lifes and figures are done with measured effects of light.
The design is delicate and the tones translucent and harmoniously distributed."
Comments by Juror, Le Grandi Mostre a Roma
“...painters have the moral obligation to search for their own way and to do it with the dignity of elementary, pure,
honest, and sincere creation, and Rosie Lawrence has done this. ... Lawrence, in her portraits, succeeds in
being informal, in the sense that she achieves a transformation of the subject, and puts the spectator in contact
with those emotional forces in which the features are dissolved and emerge in shapes, colors, and lights that
continually change. So a painting: a wall, a clod of earth, a tree, a flower, a still life, a sky, a sea, for Lawrence,
is not substance but color. It is never painted in order to represent an objective matter, but as a structure of
vibrating brushwork that gives a reduced formal convention, the brushwork decomposes in continuous movement.
In these works, the rhythms, the anxiety, the memory, the conflict is felt.
A conflict that exalts not humiliates, space is not just filled up, but also truly colored...
Lawrence's (paintings are about) the struggles between reality and the aesthetic idea... "
- Giovanni Spinicchia
"With the cultivated, passionate brightness of someone who identifies herself in the intimate essence of art,
Rosie Lawrence, an English artist living and working in Florence, offers us extraordinary skill of composition.
Always aware of the necessity to skillfully fix on the canvas the most authentic parts of reality, this sensitive
interpreter of contemporary painting transmits to us, in her precious still lifes, in her landscapes,
and in the paintings of her characters (with the refined realistic appearance of the faces and their gestures),
the whole of that great portrait tradition that has found universal creative references in Velasquez, Rembrandt,
and other painters..."
- Nicolina Bianchi, journalist, critic of art, Roma
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