JOURNAL | ARTIST BIO & STATEMENT WITH ARTIST ROSE EADS

BIOGRAPHY

Contemporary artist Rose Eads lives and works on the ancient Jurassic Coast of the UK. Using watercolour, oil pencil and graphite Rose paints sensory, aura-like ethereal visions inspired by geology, organic matter and decay.

By integrating natural pigments and rainwater from the Jurassic Coastline into her paintings, Rose endeavours to capture the history of Earth's forgotten fossilised thoughts onto paper. Her ideas translate visually into energy fields, imagined galaxies, unique painted codes, abstract dreamscapes and landscapes.

ARTIST STATEMENT

"I believe that everything is energy. All life on Earth holds spirit and through every action, there is a reaction. An endless exchange of constant flowing energy. When a river flows it carries its spirit along with it. Its essence invisible, but as an artist I feel that energy. When you step into a forest you are entering a network of conversation, both below and above ground. It may be unheard by human ears but it is there. A mountain speaks beneath the surface of the Earth, albeit silent to us.

If I was to take that essence of a river, of the forest, of a mountain and hold it physically in a closed loop in my hands, I would be capturing consciousness. Our ancestry and roots are becoming more and more blurred everyday. I try to remember and translate a lost language of the Earth in my work. I am slowly unfolding this language each time I paint, and in turn I am rediscovering my own roots.

My process when painting is a response to emotions felt in direct relationship to the natural world. My paintings depict a harnessed energy of captured consciousness. A sacred moment recorded in a closed circle. I try to resurrect and summon the deepest connection to our Mother, The Earth, for myself and the viewer.

I paint the spirit of water you feel, but never see. I paint the quiet smoke, under the mountain. I paint Eyes of the Earth. I paint from my soul core, but most of all, I paint what I feel we are forgetting and must try to remember.

We must find ourselves, and redefine ourselves, in these lost places with our Mother The Earth, in mind."

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