Rose Van Oyen

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Rose is a multidisciplinary visual artist living and working in the Moreton Bay Region. She draws her inspiration from her surrounding natural world, concentrating on florals (including Australian flora) and the ocean.

Having always been interested in arts and crafts, from an early age Rose explored the use of a range of mediums. Professional tuition then led Rose from decorative painting and realism on to impressionism and abstraction. She found the form, colour, line and feeling of spontaneity in abstraction enormously satisfying. She also enjoys using found and recycled objects by adding their various textures to her sculptural art work to bring about new dimensions and stories. Rose has won many prizes over the years and has also completed private commissions. Rose holds a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art and Visual Culture).

Ceramics are however the focus of her practice, while enjoying the tactile and imperfect natural elements of clay, she delights in creating quirky and whimsical pieces related to her love of Alice in Wonderland. Her other concerns revolve around the Australian landscape. Rose portrays the beauty of our natural Australian flora and landscape through mark making on clay vessels integrated with the ever shifting sculptural expressions of the landscape of our coastal environment. Rose is currently working towards her next exhibition.