Sepple, Rosa
ROSA SEPPLE RI SWA
Born in London of Italian/British parents, Rosa spent her formative years living between Venice and London. She acquired a love of art from her Italian grandfather, artist Salvatore Casagrande.
Over the past decade Rosa has become one of the most enigmatic and collectable artists in the UK. Rosa’s rapid ascent to success and acclaim can be attributed to her natural flair for depicting the small pleasures that delight both the eye and heart.
Her paintings have a delightful spontaneity and naivety that is completely original. They are irreverent, sometimes risqué, usually playful, but above all, immensely joyful. Rosa happily flouts conventions such as perspective, scale and proportion. Instead there is an intensity of colour, unusual layered collages of media and texture, and closer examination reveals a skillfully crafted complexity.
Rosa succeeds in bringing joy to the viewer in a unique way, depicting the moods and pleasures of a fantastical, somewhat dreamlike world that is magical, whimsical and heart warming. People float and fly, tease, party, dance and flirt, buildings lean and topple, flowers sparkle and animals smile.
She was already a member of the Society of Women Artists when she submitted her work to the prestigious Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and was duly accepted as a member in 2004.
Recent awards include: The Herring Award for best figurative; The Elizabeth Scott-Moore Award; The Debra Manifold Award; The Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Award; The Andrew Hillier Award for Creativity; and two Daler-Rowney Awards.
