Marigold Man Takes On The Earth

Rosie is inspired by light and life, her work can be broadly split into two - the figure and the landscape, although fleeting encounters with a scene or scenario also generates work Rosie produces. Helicoidal pattern within composition connects a lot of her work - the spiralling form of the universe, DNA, shells, surf, clouds, can be found in a lot of her work. Rosie has always been concerned with the human condition – interaction with the environment, she has developed an ongoing series of woodcut prints concerned with observations and muse into the effects of consumption on the planet. Representation of the human form is an ongoing preoccupation - gender, the association of gender roles, femininity, masculinity and its depiction in Art. Rosie's prolific - she has a large portfolio of work, a lot of it can be seen on her website www.rosieburnsartist.com

Rosie sold her first paintings when she was 15 years old; she has been making and selling her artwork for over three decades. She trained as an Archaeological site and find illustrator as part of a degree in Archaeology and Sociology. She then went on to study for a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in secondary Art and Design, university of Plymouth, in the late 1990s. Rosie has taught in many educational environments and continues to work in a forest school, run a monthly life drawing day and various Art workshops. She lives in Bideford in North Devon and has a passion for gardening and sea swimming.

This Marigold Man is a little more than just a domestic figure, as the coronation of King Charles III, coincided with the celebration of spring, the green gloves and foot resting on the earth, a little nod to
Beltane and hope that the new monarch will have a greening influence on the united kingdom and commonwealth countries. The last in this series of Marigold Men. The Green Man symbolises rebirth and possible co-dependence between nature and man. It represents the lushness of growing vegetation and the arrival of spring and summer. In many myths, he appears as a variety of figures. Plants and flowers are so important to life on Earth that practically every civilisation has a god dedicated to them. The Green Man is often used to represent ecological awareness or seasonal renewal: growth. He has been associated with everything from the Greek god Pan, to the Celtic Cernunnos, to vegetative deities like Dionysus or the Welsh Blodeuwedd, to the medieval woodwose or 'wild-man of the wood.' The invitation for the coronation, of Charles III, on 6th May 2023, was designed by Andrew Jamieson, a heraldic artist and manuscript illuminator, and features the couple's coats of arms and a motif of the Green Man against a background of the emblematic flowers of the UK and a British wildflower meadow and wildlife. A little nod to Beltane and hope that the next monarch will have a greening influence on the united kingdom and commonwealth countries. The last of this series of Marigold Men.

Relief Print and Foil Leaf Gloves on 100% recycled handmade cotton rag paper, waterbased ink and green foil gilded gloves

60x45cm

Framed under glass

Edition of 7