Rose Strang Artworks
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In Rose Strang's extraordinary paintings, no focal point is privileged. These are intensely dynamic paintings, seethingly alive with stroke, dab, scratch, and drip. Breeze along as she recounts and shares her newest artworks, ideas, painting themes, inspiration and more.
Rose Strang Artworks
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Pittenweem 3. Mixed media on 8×8″ wood. Rose Strang. Up for sale as part of a fund-raiser for people in Palestine – This little painting (above) I made back in 2016 as part of the Harbours exhibition celebrating Scotland’s east coast. I kept it as I’m fond of it, but this is a good cause ..read more
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Above: Today’s studio shot – Return. VI. Mixed media on 32×32″ canvas. Rose Strang 2024 At the weekend I visited the Crusader’s effigy at Aberlady again with a posse of young relatives including my niece Emma and her partner Manuel, who had fun editing this atmospheric video in about ten minutes from just a couple ..read more
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Painting in progress (above, and below on the easel): Return III. Acrylic and oils on 32×32″ canvas. Rose Strang 2024 Today’s painting which explores many ideas related to the landscape of Aberlady and the effigy of a 13th century crusader that forms part of a ruined friary near the village. This one’s a bit more ..read more
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Above, another iteration of the ‘Return’ theme. Featuring the stylised effigy of a crusader from the 12th century, as discovered at a ruined Carmelite Friary in Aberlady. Not the title I’ll give it, obviously! This one is in progress and I’m interested to see a sort of formal hall emerge. Or perhaps with new colours ..read more
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Above Return II. Acrylic on 32×32″ canvas. Rose Strang 2024. Just a quick post today with an image of today’s painting, which is a perhaps more resolved version of yesterday’s composition (below) I was halfway through writing a blog post about the SSEN’s plans to set up sub stations throughout Scotland, which will ruin the ..read more
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Above Return. Acrylic on 31.5×31.5 ” canvas. Rose Strang 2024 Photo below to show scale … Moving on to larger canvas today, I’m feeling happy with the direction this series is taking. I was calling this the ‘crusader’s tomb’ series but I feel that the title ‘Return’ has more resonance and is less restricting somehow ..read more
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Above: Shorelines, Aberlady. I. Oil on 8×5.5″ wood. Rose Strang 2024 More oil sketches in progress today inspired by the shorelines and moods of Aberlady. These are most likely destined for the Hayden Gallery which is situated near the River Thames in Marlow, somewhere between London and Oxford. This is a new gallery for me ..read more
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Above: Island. Acrylic and oil on 14×10″ wood. Rose Strang 2024 This is one of today’s paintings as part of the Crusader’s tomb series I’m working on this year. (previous posts here – post 1 post 2 post 3 post 4) I imagined our crusader, David de Lindsey visualising his home, as he lay in ..read more
Rose Strang Artworks
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Above: Return II. Oil on 20×20″ canvas. Rose Strang 2024 It’s a bit boring to stick to one thing. It’s more interesting to be insecure. You should have a measure of uncertainty and perplexity. What’s happening? What am I doing? What can I do? A quote from the artist Gerhard Richter there, by way of ..read more