AshleighRosa

This series is titled ‘Forecast’. Originally from the Northeast, I currently live in California.
Sunny, 75 degrees, Sunny, 75 degrees…
At the risk of sounding ungrateful, I now long for anything that even remotely resembles weather. ‘Forecast’ is both an ode to that yearning and a means to capture those lost ephemeral moments: fog dissipating over the horizon after rain, sun seeping through dense trees, steps along saturated earth. Using abstraction and minimal mark-making I aim to capture the psychological and physical aspects weather carries whilst utilizing the inherent properties of the paper itself: it soaks, warps, and stretches under the weight of water; stained as a trace to these events.

“I watched the flooded willow trees bend in the wind, and the moss on the dead cypress in the bays straighten and fall, and the sunlight danced and shattered on the water when the surface suddenly wrinkled from one shore to the next.”
–James Lee Burke

About the Artist
Ashleigh Rosa received her BFA in 2005 from Alfred University’s School of Art & Design with a concentration in painting. She currently teaches in the visual arts a in Los Olivos, California. She sells her work online and writes a blog called Wholesome Scraps.

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