Alison Rosse
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Alison Rosse
"Haybales Birr Castle"
Oil on board, 8" x 10"
"Haybales Birr Castle"
Oil on board, 8" x 10"
Lady Alison Rosse is a self-taught Irish artist, based at Birr Castle in County Offaly. Although she received no formal training as a painter, she has worked alongside other artists, in particular her mentor, Derek Hill. Throughout her career as an artist, she travelled extensively with her husband who worked for the United Nations. She also lived for a number of years in Iran, where she painted desert landscapes in oils and also worked as a draftsman on archaeological sites.
On returning to Birr Castle in Ireland she began painting with watercolours and held a number of exhibitions of paintings from her travels. She then turned her attention to painting interior scenes from the libraries of some of Ireland’s finest stately homes, and held a solo exhibition of these paintings at the National Library of Ireland in 1993, which was opened by the Irish President, Mary Robinson. She continues to paint interior scenes in oils, of her home, Birr Castle and numerous other Irish Georgian Houses. In addition to her paintings of interiors, she also paints small scale works depicting the landscape surrounding her home and the Slieve Bloom mountains, which are painted in situ. She also often travels to the West of Ireland, where she finds inspiration in the rugged landscape of the islands off the coast.
Paintings by Alison Rosse are now held in numerous private and public collections throughout Ireland and England and she has held solo exhibitions at the Irish Georgian Society and at Nymans, the National Trust garden in Sussex.
On returning to Birr Castle in Ireland she began painting with watercolours and held a number of exhibitions of paintings from her travels. She then turned her attention to painting interior scenes from the libraries of some of Ireland’s finest stately homes, and held a solo exhibition of these paintings at the National Library of Ireland in 1993, which was opened by the Irish President, Mary Robinson. She continues to paint interior scenes in oils, of her home, Birr Castle and numerous other Irish Georgian Houses. In addition to her paintings of interiors, she also paints small scale works depicting the landscape surrounding her home and the Slieve Bloom mountains, which are painted in situ. She also often travels to the West of Ireland, where she finds inspiration in the rugged landscape of the islands off the coast.
Paintings by Alison Rosse are now held in numerous private and public collections throughout Ireland and England and she has held solo exhibitions at the Irish Georgian Society and at Nymans, the National Trust garden in Sussex.