After being occupied for about three decades with a successful career in interior design, Lisa Rose says that a new chapter in her life opened six years ago which allowed him to discover a fresh and exciting path for her creativity.
Although he works continuously with color and spatial design in her design company, she had not used these skills before for other artistic activities.
“I didn't know my whole life that I could paint,” explains Rose.
It was, up to six years ago, when she took her fundamental sense of creativity and the skills acquired thanks to her work and converted them into canvas.
Rose was raised in Queens, New York, and studied interior design at Cornell University and later at the New York School of Interior Design.
In New York, she worked for a few well -known designers, including Joseph Braswell, with whom she worked on the 100 -foot yacht and the private jet of a Saudi princess, and Jay Specter.
During her stay with Specter, she took secondary work with an entire budget of $ 8,000, as opposed to her accounts, which generally started with a budget of at least $ 100,000. There were bad and good ramifications for this action. While she was dismissed for doing the project by herself, the finished work was found on the pages of Cosmopolitan magazine. A second finished design was published in the Interior Design and Rose magazine has never looked back.
Rose discovered Vero Beach when a Florida client asked her to design his house, and now divides her time between here and Sag Harbor, a village of Long Island in New York.
After joining the Vero Beach Art Club, she made one of their studio tours of the Beaux-Arts and crafts and visited the studio of the pastel artist Dawn Miller.
Falling “in love, in love, in love”, with the pastel medium, she decided: “It's just for me”.
And after learning that Miller offered introductory art courses in pastels, Rose and a friend took a course and she thought: “I think I can really do this.”
Today, the paintings that Rose produced appears as if they had been created by an artist with more experience. Her pastel paintings cross the border between traditional and contemporary, with, as she says, “a suspicion of abstraction”, capturing sunsets, the big sky and the daily views with an ethereal sensation.
Rose continued her artistic schooling, going to Miller lessons and taking many other workshops to perfect her job.
“I know the importance of comments and continuing education,” explains Rose.
She adds that she and the other students bring everything to what they work on, be it oils, acrylic or pastels, to obtain the criticism and assistance from Miller when they evolve with their individual projects.
“Each Thursday, I go out with the Plein Air Painter Group group of the Treasure Coast launched by Kathryn Larson. I start at the top of pastel paint and I work, so pastel dust does not put itself at the lower part of the painting. We have about 10 people, and we go everywhere.”
The group goes to various places, often a private place, where painters choose a scene and begin to paint, bringing back all unfinished work to do in their respective studios. Rose also has a good eye when it comes to choosing frames to complete the works.
The group was included as part of the secret Waldo secret art march at the Waldo's Secret Garden last year. The location, formerly the family property of Vero Pioneer Waldo E. Sexton and the Dairy Tripson site, is today a place of marriage and event led by Charlotte Tripson, the great-granddaughter of Sexton.
The show was produced as an inaugural event by Isola Arts, founded by the friend of Rose, Kathryn Larson. Although they may have thought that a few hundred could reveal themselves, the organizers rather estimated that it attracted more than 2,500 people to see the works of 30 artists in a variety of mediums. Needless to say, the show is already reserved for February.
“It was an excellent opportunity to sell your work,” explains Rose.
The pink paintings reflect her appreciation for the colors of nature, which she displays in all their sumptuous beauty. When you are not working in the open air, Rose often photographs scenes to recreate and improve in her studio.
“I do a lot of” mooshing “with my hands, the mixture,” explains Rose, of the technique it uses with pastels, adding that the ability to do it is what it particularly likes in the medium.
She explains that she first tried to paint in oils, but adds: “The medium simply did not work for me. I have no patience with oils. ”
Art is now a full -time business for Rose, whether here or in Sag Harbor, and it frequently exhibited in both states.
Rose is an active member of the Pastel Society of America, the National League of Pen Women, Vero Beach Art Club, Artists Alliance of the East End (Long Island), Wednesday Group and Treasure Coast outdoor Group.
Photos of Joshua Kodis
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