Nicholas St John Rosse
Oil Paint
Born in 1945 in Hampstead and educated in London. Nicholas moved to Italy. In the earli 60s and studied in the studio of Pietro Annigoni and attended the Scuola del Nudo of the Florence Academy. In 1966 he returned to England and form 1968 onwards exhibited extensively in London and the provinces with numerous portrait commissions.
In 1981 he moved to Cornwall with his family and ran residential painting courses for a number of years. He worked in Adult Education and continued exhibiting in one-man and group shows and regularly received commissions for portraits and for figure groups in coastal settings.
Made full member of the RSMA in 2012, and has been Governor for RSMA on the FBA BOARD from 2014 and passed the baton to his successor in October 2020
What he says about his work
“Though I paint a wide range of subject matter, most of my paintings are centred around the human figure and in recent years use beach settings, in particular at the water’s edge. I like to find ways in which the figure can relate to water and sand both in reality and pictorially. The visual fusion of water, sand and rock enveloping people fascinates me, and I try to use these elements as an extension of the model’s mood.”