About the Artist

"Landscape is the most profound teacher. Through painting landscape over the years, my brushwork becomes an expressive response to elements felt and observed."

My inspiration comes from the natural world, our relationship with it and the traces of memories it holds. My process often includes research into history, literature and music."

Rose Strang has exhibited in Edinburgh at the Royal Scottish Academy, City Art Centre, The Demarco European Art Foundation, Summerhall, Open Eye Gallery and the Heriot Gallery. In wider Scotland; The Resipole Gallery and Kilmorack Gallery. In England; Limetree Gallery Bristol and Long Melford, Io Gallery, Brighton. In wider Europe; Corte Real Gallery Portugal and Gallery One Berlin.

In 2018 she became a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and in 2020 was commissioned by Folio Society London to create paintings for their 2021 publication of Scottish literary classic, The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd.

Born and currently living in Edinburgh, after studying life drawing at the Leith School of Art, Edinburgh and under the tuition of artist Bill Gillon, Rose completed a BA (HONS) in Fine Art then studied for a PG Dip in Museum and Gallery Curation at St Andrews University School of Art History. She was contracted as a lead artist/curator for the NHS in the Midlands and in Scotland between 2007 and 2011 before focussing solely on painting from 2012.

5-star Times Review, 2023, by author and Times art critic Giles Sutherland - on Strang’s Living Mountain series:

"A symphony of subtle essences, distilled experiences, fleeting memory fragments and deep, heartfelt lingering impressions … these paintings work slowly, generatively taking hold of our senses and our imagination." *****

Robert McFarlane, author of The Lost Words, The Wild Places and Underland.

"In Rose Strang’s extraordinary paintings, no focal point is privileged. These are intensely dynamic paintings. Landscape, here, is not static backcloth or wallpaper … Water, in Strang’s paintings, is made strange again to the eye … astonishing in its persistence, dramatic in its presence."

Intro The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd, Folio Society edition London 2021.