In her early life Rosalind Bieber was a concert pianist and harpsichordist giving regular recitals at the South Bank in London.. This was cut short because of injury, when she was twenty seven. She then became interested in painting and studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School in Kennington London for four years
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People have always been a source of fascination to her .At five or six being alone too much at home she would run out to the bus stop and chat to total strangers. Much of her earlier artwork has been concerned with bus queues and or people sitting on benches ..waiting.
From holidays in Scarborough and being brought up in Southport LANCS she saw the timeless small dramas and poetry of everyday life. These are themes she constantly returns to.
Following a diagnosis fifteen years ago of total allergy syndrome (brought on by an accidental exposure to carbon monoxide) she was forced to be inventive with art materials. and found delight and fun in constant experimentation.
Her new materials included sand. chalk. rice glue. dental concrete.carburundum. monoprint and collage. These have led Rosalind onto a wide range of subject matter.....everything from Adam and Eve to the Downfall of the Bankers.
Nowadays she uses monoprint and collage especially in images of the animal kingdom and birds and fish.' I have come to love animals through drawing them--- the movement., the tensions ,the shapes they make Being wild their actions are totally pure and uninhibited..'
Recently experimenting with the computer as a means of expression has led into a new and colourful language particularly suited to jazz and abstraction.
Rosalind relocated from London to Suffolk in 2017 and has been inspired by the atmosphere of the harbour.....the elements boats. rusting iron ,old wood ,the smell of the sea. A body of work is emerging using collage and organic paint. She enjoys the tension between creating the flat surface of a two dimensional painting and the slight relief when using collage.
