Rosemary Burn
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→ 2026 Artful houseplants, by Giovanni Aloi. HENI publishing
→ 2024 Zandra Rhodes portraits from private sitting
→ 2023 Interview with James Thomas, BBC Radio Wiltshire
→ 2023, Pomegranate magazine, London
→ 2020, Featured in House and Garden magazine
→ 2020, Artist of the future award, Contemporary art curator magazine
→ 2002, Featured in the book ‘City Racing, the life and times of an artist run gallery’
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Solo exhibitions
→ 2021, Amalgam, The Space Theatre, London
→ 1991, City Racing, London
Group exhibitions
→ 2025 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London
→ 2025 Fusion and Focus, Artcan
→ 2025 The New Artist, Boomer Gallery London
→ 2025 Women beyond borders, Queens Gallery, Times Square New York
→ 2025 Venice International Art Fair
→ 2025 Pensychnant Open Exhibition
→ 2025 RA Summer Exhibition
→ 2025 Wales Contemporary, Garrison Chapel Chelsea, The Waterfront Gallery Milford Haven
→ 2024 Society of Wildlife Artists exhibition, ‘The Natural Eye’, Mall Galleries London
→ 2024 Royal Society of Marine Artists exhibition, Mall Galleries London
→ 2024 Danger Zone, Aedra Fine Arts, online
→ 2024 Pensychnant Open Exhibition
→ 2024 Artcan exhibition ‘Fiesta’, Inky Fingers Gallery, London
→ 2024 Shh, the Artcan secret auction, online
→ 2024 Gallery representation, Opulent Art Gallery/ Artsy
→ 2024 Art on a postcard, The Bomb Factory, Covent Garden London
→ 2023 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries London
→ 2023 SWLA 60th anniversary exhibition, The Natural Eye, Mall Galleries London
→ 2023 10th Art Gemini Prize finalists exhibition, Zari Gallery London
→ 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
→ 2023 Anniversary 10x10 ArtCan, Hansard Studio, London
→ 2023 Chroma 2 Artcan, America Square Conference Centre, London
→ 2023 The Power of Pencil, Artcan 10th anniversary exhibition
→ 2023 Figurative Art spring exhibition, Open Gallery Halifax
→ 2022 Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries London
→ 2022 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
→ 2022 Green and Stone Summer Online Exhibition
→ 2022 Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London
→ 2022, Paris International Art Fair
→ 2022, Artexpo, New York
→ 2022, Contemporary Art Masters Virtual Art Fair
→ 2022, Van Gogh Gallery, Madrid
→ 2021, Figurative Art Now, The Federation of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London
→ 2021, Gallery representation, Tom Zaw Fine Art, Hoddesdon, Herts
→ 2021, Gallery representation, Alessandro Berni Gallery, New York
→ 2021, Reflections, 3 person show, Arte Borgo Gallery, Rome
→ 2021, Infinite Dreams, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
→ 2021, Canvas - Mixing Identities, London International Art Fair, THE LINE, contemporary art space, London
→ 2020, Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
→ 2020, Shortlisted to exhibit at the BP portrait award, National Portrait Gallery, London
→ 2019, Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
→ 2019, Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence
→ 2018, Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
→ 1990, Group exhibition, The Showroom, London
→ 1990, Group exhibition, Art Now, London
→ 1990, 27 Artists before the roof falls in, Art East, London
→ 1990, Christie's Inaugural, Christie's, London
→ 1984, International Garden Festival, International Garden Festival, Liverpool
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→ 2025, El Greco Fine Arts award
→ 2025, Finalist, Artavita international awards
→ 2024 Best Art Awards (still life) honourable mention award
→ 2024 Zandra Rhodes portraits from private sitting
→ 2023 Finalist, 10th Art Gemini Prize
→ 2023 2nd place runner up, Teravarna Gallery 7th landscape international competition
→ 2023 2nd place runner up, Teravarna Gallery international artist grant awards
→ 2023 Collectors Art Prize
→ 2022, Wells Art Contemporary awards
→ 2020, Artist of the future award, Contemporary art curator magazine
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With a background in both fine art and classical music, Rosemary Burn brings a rare sensibility to figurative painting - where observation meets poetics. Her works, often still life's, portraits, or quiet landscapes, are deeply rooted in everyday moments: a dripping tap, a ripple of water, a passing expression on a face, or the quiet tension of absence.
For Burn, painting isn't just about representing objects; it's about capturing the human trace that lingers beyond them. Her practice balances between representation and abstraction - each brushstroke holding emotional weight, each texture inviting us to feel rather than simply see. Educated in sculpture at Chelsea School of Art (MA), and piano at Trinity College of Music, her multidisciplinary experience gives her visual language a layered, almost musical rhythm.
Between painting, teaching, and performing music, Rosemary remains devoted to a daily creative life. Her art, whether on canvas or in the concert hall, invites us into a world of nuance, intimacy, and attentiveness to the overlooked. "I work every day searching for an alchemy between paint, subject and moment."
Along with portraits and landscapes, I am more often than not drawn to painting still life. Although it is perhaps just painting ‘stuff’, I love its humility, and its implied human content - what is perhaps hovering beyond its parameters; a human element notable by its absence.
There is a certain poetry to be found in a dripping bath tap and the light carried in the ripples, a fly on the wall, the fleeting expression on a face, a nameless place. It seems to me that these happenings underpin our existence; big events, highs and lows, come and go but the insignificant and fleeting remain and repeat, like a constant hum in the background.
The nature of each brushstroke, and the texture of the paint also play an important part in the translation of the seen, into a blurring between the representational and the semi abstract, the patterns which often escape our notice. I work every day searching for an alchemy between paint, subject and moment. When I studied at Chelsea School of Art I was making sculpture, but the intention behind the work was similar. Works from those times include a bicycle abandoned on its side with its back wheel perpetually turning, so the scene of an accident was kept alive for an infinite length of time, a remote controlled leg of lamb, a huge flying saucepan which had come to rest skewered by the sword of a swordfish held upright by a fisherman (both plaster casts).
Although my life is a busy one with many commitments - I am also a classical pianist (and I teach the piano and violin) - not being creative in some way every day has never been possible for me. I love every minute!
