Rose Wark Biography

GROUP EXHIBITS

2009 Atelier Circulaire, Montreal

2011 Campbell Art Gallery, Westmount, Quebec

2007 Ouvrir la Voie, Musee des maitres et artisans du Quebec 

                            Art Bridge,  Joint  Exhibit for Iraqi and North American 
                            artists, California, U.S.A.

1995-2003 Danielle Lambert Galleries, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1994 Portraits International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1993 Sodarco Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1991 Town Gallery, Fredericton, N.B. Canada Aids Benefit Exhibit, Fredericton

1991, 1989 Marion McCain Juried Exhibit Beaverbrook Gallery, Fredericton, N.B., Canada

1988 Chess Art Exhibit Aitken Exhibition Centre, Saint John, N.B., Canada

1986 “Hope for Ethiopia” Art Show and Sale Saint John, N.B., Canada

SOLO EHIBITS

2006 Queen Bee’s Gallery, Queen Charlotte City, B.C., Canada

1993 City Gallery, Saint John, N.B., Canada

1992 Jun Gallery, Hondo, Japan

1989 Aitken Exhibition Centre, Saint John, NB, Canada

GRAPHIC AND OTHER WORK

-Marine Disaster and courtroom sketches for CBC Television -Portrait commissions -Mural for World Chess Festival -Posters, illustrations for advertising

COLLECTIONS

Hondo High School, Japan Hespia House, Saint John, NB Women’s Shelter, Queen Charlotte City, BC Fiducie Desjardins Ronsco Inc. Bell Mobilite Cellulaire Lallonde, Miller and Associates Produits Forestiers Alliance Lundbeck Canada Merrill Lynch Elantis Fonds Mutuel Cartier Wealth Management Group Auberge Shalom

Artist's Statement

Canadian artist Rose Wark currently lives in Montreal. As a child, Rose had the good fortune to be able to spend days and months wandering in the wild places of Canada, and it has made a deep and lasting impression on her. Several months of travel in Asia and Europe have also been very inspiring. She enjoys painting and drawing figures and portraits, but specializes in landscapes. At the moment she is working on a forest series using not only paint but also plant matter found in the forest. There are leaves and stems embedded in and placed on top of layers of opaque and transparent paint. Always playing with the line between reality and the representation of reality there are real objects placed beside highly resolved paintings of objects. Rose likes to give the viewer of her paintings a feeling of being at that place. There are scenes from the temperate rainforests of Haida Gwaii on the western coast of Canada, the eastern deciduous forests of North America, the boreal and the mountains of Kyushu in Japan. Rose hopes to continue this series in the future with scenes of other types of forests.