ROSIE SCHRÖDER

"TO CREATE A WORK OF ART INVOLVES SOMETIMES A VISION AND SOMETIMES A FEELING BUT ALWAYS IT INVOLVES SOUL.”

Rosie Schröder was raised on a farm in the Niagara Peninsula until she left for the University of Toronto. Farm life taught her the respect and appreciation for nature that today she uses to nurture her soul and draw inspiration from for her paintings and collages.

Initially, her inspirations compelled her to focus on representational paintings in oil and watercolour. Today nature inspires her through line, colour and form to create both representational as well as abstractions and non-objective works in a variety of media.

Rosie has taken a variety of art courses over the years:

1. Multi media at York University
2. Portraiture in oils at the Ontario College of Art and Design
3. Study of the human form in oils at the Ontario College of Art and Design
4. Studies of the human form and still life in watercolour at the Ontario College of Art and Design
5. Portraiture drawing at the College of Art and Design
6. Figurative studies with artist Derek Greene and Peter Kolisnyk
7. Abstraction and collage with Mary Wood
8. Print making with Margaret Peters, Linda Blix and VJ Geard
9. Acrylics with Lila Lewis Irving and Steve Rose
10. Encaustics with Susan Fisher

She has had solo exhibitions in the Niagara Region, Toronto, Alliston, Anton Mills, Barrie and Newmarket. Her works have been accepted into juried shows such as “The Colour and Form Society”, the “ McMichael Gallery”, the “Ontario College of Art and Design”, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the “The Headwaters Arts Festival”, “The Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts”, “Huronia Museum”, the” MacLaren Gallery",the “Millpond Gallery”, Uxbridge and “Art Aurora”.

Awards include:
Honourable Mentions, Aurora Legion, 2006, 2007
Best of Show, Etobicoke Civic Centre, 2006
First Prize in alternative media category, Art Aurora, 2002
Second Prize at the Millpond Gallery, 2003
Third Prize at Maggiolly’s Gallery Space, 2002
Honourable Mention at the Millpond Gallery, 2002


Rosie is a founding member of the “A Group”, a group of South Simcoe artists. She chaired the group for 2 years and also served as show co-ordinator. She is also a member of the Barrie Art Club, Dufferin Arts Council, South Simcoe Arts Council , Visual Arts Ontario, Orangeville Art Group, SOYRA, Artists at the Gibson and Headwaters Arts.

Her paintings hang in private collections across Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

When asked why she paints, Rosie replies: “It is an inexplicable urge that I am compelled to satisfy. I must create just as I must breathe.”

You can contact Rosie Schröder at: 905-729-2908 or via email at cdnpride@idirect.com

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