Rosie McLay

Website:

www.rosiemclay.com

'@rosiemclayart

Brave, Etching with Brass Leaf

Sister, Greeting Card with Gold Foil

Grounding, Miniature Giclee Print hand finished in Brass Leaf

Biography

It's the Artists mission to celebrate the lesser-seen and the taboo, bringing beauty to that which we don't appreciate as much as we should. When drawing in this intimate approach with upmost intricacy and detail, this allows the artist to truly engage with the subject and this encourages the viewer too also. Rosie's art is an education for her and for you, providing a window into her world and ours.
To be pursuing this work in practices that use heritage craft techniques such as copper plate etching and more recently medieval painted stained glass, (Just a few pieces might be on display) there is a story also in the process and its history.

inspiration

In her recent Artist Residencies having taken part in the most precious of acts; to dissect the human body, the Artist is taking this profound education into the mechanics of life (and death) and turning it into a beautiful landscape of the unseen.
What brought Rosie to this subject was processing the loss of her Mother and Grandmother during the pivotal creative years of her degree, and hoping to gain better understanding of what brings us to life in the first place and what can take it away.

medium

Rosie explores what it means to be a living thing through her art; capturing the wonder of the human body and the natural environment through intricate copper plate etchings. Using this heritage printmaking technique gives a voice of the past which is suggestive of the artists’ choice of a fragile subject matter; death, birth, extinction and growth.
The Da-Vinci-esq studies are composed of deep, intricate, sooty black line work and often adorned in delicate fragments of brass leaf that celebrate the sensitive nature of the subject.

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