rosanne DOLAN

rosanne DOLAN – Painter

ARTIST STATEMENT

My extensive training in figure and still life has led me to delight in aspects of both the natural and man-made world. I use colour and value contrasts in bold ways that can be evocative, suggestive, subjective and/or imaginative. Colour is my muse and my work habitually manipulates colour for impact and playfulness. Along with colour, I embrace textures, those created by paint and brush, by collage, and real textures that I apply directly to the canvas. I also explore the image in its relationship to both the canvas surface and illusions of depth.

I believe that everything I see is subject to interpretation, and, although I treasure the identity of things, I am not necessarily loyal to their details or environment. I would like viewers to engage beyond the first glance, to see what I have or have not done to an image and its surroundings to change what is assumed.

BIOGRAPHY

I have drawn and painted since I was a child, so it naturally followed that I would study art and work for a time in one of its many related fields as a secondary school visual arts teacher. I studied in Ontario at the University of Windsor and York University in Toronto, achieving an Honours BA with a major in Fine Arts from York University. Thereafter, I continued my art studies as a part-time student at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto for several years. I left teaching in 2007 to pursue my own art practise.

Memberships

• Colborne Art Gallery Co-operative, Colborne, ON (2020 – present)
• Spirit of the Hills Art Association, Northumberland County ON (2015 – present)

Art Exhibitions

• Pomona Restaurant, Colborne, ON (2022 – present) group show
• Queenie’s Bake Shop, Port Hope, ON (2024) solo show
• Port Hope Library, Port Hope, ON (2024) group exhibition
• Trent Hills Library, Warkworth Branch, Warkworth, ON (2018 – 2023) – group show
• Cobourg BIA Storefronts, Cobourg, ON (2021, 2022) – group show
• Caper’s Restaurant, Campbellford, ON (2018, 2021) – group show
• Northumberland Hospital, Cobourg, ON (2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 – 2024) – group show
• Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg, ON (2021) – juried group show
• Port Hope Arts Festival, Port Hope, ON (2021 – 2024) – group show
• Port Hope Arts Festival, Port Hope, ON (2019, 2020) – juried group show
• Northumberland Art Gallery, Port Hope, ON (2019) – group show
• Parrott Gallery, Belleville, ON (2018, 2019, 2024) – juried group show
• Northumberland Festival of the Arts, Northumberland County, ON (2017, 2019, 2022, 2024) – group show
• Waterfront Festival, Cobourg, ON (2016, 2018, 2019, 2023) – group show
• Caper’s Restaurant, Campbellford, ON (2017, 2022, 2024) – solo show

OF INTENT
acrylic and collage canvas, 24”x36”, $950

WITHOUT FLOWERS
acrylic paint on canvas, framed, 18”x 24”, $580.

DAYBREAK
acrylic paint and mixed media, 12”x12, $600