Landscape is the most profound teacher. Through painting landscape over the years, my brushwork begins to reflect energy felt from the elements observed.
Rose Strang's inspiration comes from the natural world, the energies it emanates and the traces of memories it holds. Her marks reflect this in her painterly almost scientific, poetic, explorations of the land. She often travels, looking for places which call to her.
"In Rose Strang’s extraordinary paintings, no focal point is privileged. These are intensely dynamic paintings, seethingly alive with stroke, dab, scratch and drip. 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."
Robert McFarlane, author of The Lost Worlds, The Wild Places and Underland