Weronika Anna Rosa

Weronika Anna Rosa (born in 1990, Warsaw, Poland) - visual botanical artist, researcher and art historian, since 2016 based in Lisbon, Portugal. She developed her artistic education, rich in experimenting with various techniques and visual forms, in Poland, France and Portugal.

Her work is strongly influenced by the botanical education she received from her grandparents. Starting from a careful observation of nature, through botanical studies and realism, she abstractly scale the subject, bringing it closer to the size of a human body.

This naturalistic iconography, becomes a universal language for symbolic and emotional content. In her works, she explores the relations between plants and humans; botany and its connection with current socio-cultural and environmental factors.

She celebrates the ephemeral beauty of flowers, their complexity of meanings, and explores the importance of the colour. Like a portrait, Rosa dedicate each painting to one plant only. The highly aesthetic visual layer is a kind of puzzle - a veil hiding the multi-meaning narrative inscribed in her art.

Paintings

Weronika works with various media to obtain diverse textures, scales and volumes. She mainly uses cotton and Kraft paper, looking to underline its particular characteristics (texture, stiffness and roughness or thinness and delicacy). Multi-layered, dense paint, that she often juxtaposes with golden Japanese ink add a special depth and brightness to the colours.

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Illustrations

The botanical illustrations are a way to record a careful observation of plants, capture their movements and note their colour pallet. In her illustrations, Weronika refers to the tradition of botanical art and herbaria. However, she doesn’t attempt to copy the reality, but to creatively interpret the nature with audacity.

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Selected works:

"L'Amour" (2023)
"Hidden Potential / Spider Lily" (2023)
"Anthurium" (2021)
"Wrong Eden" (2022)
"Glorious" (2022)
"Adaptation" (2023)

Recent exhibitions:

Natura ludzka - solo show, Galeria Prześwit

MAY 17th - JUNE 18th, Warsaw (Poland)
fot. Eliza Krakówka

Documentation
Planatae - Annual Exhibition of Society of Botanical Artists

MAY 16th-20th, London (UK)
Mall Galleries

Documentation

They wrote:

"Observing the flowers, their stems and curves in detail is still the first step of her artistic process. Each one of her panel is dedicated to one flower as she turns it into a portrait. What really impressed me is the thoroughness with which she delicately crafts each and every one of her pieces. Thoroughness, details, time: all things we tend to overlook in more ways than one."

Lauriane Gepner, Bom Dia
"In her Lisbon's studio, in the attic, flowers bloom all year round (...) Weronika's flowers subtly refer to the art of late 19th and early 20th centuries. The artist often thinks back to the Stanisław Wyspiański's works or the French Nabis' paintings, especially these by Pierre Bonard and Maurice Denis."

Ela Stasiak, ELLE Decoration Poland

Objects / design

Since 2019, Weronika Anna Rosa develops designs based on her hand-painted projects. Especially interested in fabrics and a tactile experience they bring, she created few collections of silk scarves, textiles and wallcoverings, always paying a particular attention to the careful craftsmanship of these objects.

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Collaborations

Commissioned paintings, illustrations and creations realised for private customers, or in collaboration with interior designers, constitute an important pillar of Weronika’s artistic work. These projects are based on bilateral dialogue and are preceded by appropriate research to respond to the client's needs.

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