Nicholas St John Rosse Exhibition

Nicholas St John Rosse
St Ives Sept Festival Exhibition
Sept 10 - Oct 8th
(All work available for purchase by arrangement prior to show opening).

Nicholas St John Rosse was born in 1945 in Hampstead, London. From an early age he became interested in painting, encouraged and enthused by watching the landscape painter Donald Towner at work. On leaving school, Nicholas went to see Pietro Annigoni in Italy with a portfolio of drawings and three years in Florence followed, as a student with the master and at the Scuola Del Nudo of the Florence Academy.

Nicholas has exhibited in numerous exhibitions including the R.A., the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Royal West of England Academy and the Royal Society of Marine Artists. He has twice won the coveted Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award.

In 1981, Nicholas moved to the North Cornish Coast where the beaches provide him with endless settings for his enchanting compositions of children playing. His beautiful portraits are not only technically flawless, but are also poignant studies of that most transient of all moments - childhood. Never sentimental but always heartfelt, his children seem to represent the universal child. Whether they remind us of our own children, or our grandchildren, or even ourselves, they capture forever that elusive perfect day of sunshine and rock pools, sandcastles and wonderment.

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