Date of Birth: 29 March, 1951
Place: Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
Profession: Artist, teacher, painter, engraver and publisher. Also printer of limited edition handmade books
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Rosalind Cuthbert took her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art between 1974 and 1977. She is a co-director of the Mendip Painting Centre. She taught at Central School of Art and Design as a printmaking tutor between 1979 and 1993 as well as initiating several shorter painting courses in Italy, France and Wales.
She has had several solo exhibitions including Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath in 1995 and the Victoria Rooms Bristol in 1989 where she exhibited paintings and prints as part of the Bristol Print Festival in a show entitled 'Hostages'. Since 1974 she has participated in numerous group exhibitions at a number of prestigious venues including the Royal Academy, London, Medici Gallery, London and Plymouth City Art Gallery. She has won four awards including a first prize at the Royal West of England Academy.
Her work is represented in nine public collections, the National Portrait Gallery, National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Contemporary Arts Society to name but three.
Wassily Kandinsky, Georges Braque, 'Balthus' and Rene Magritte are cited as early influences upon her work alongside Blair Hughes-Stanton and her teacher, Cecil Collins.
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' I am a figurative painter who seeks visual poetry in
the experiences of looking imagining and remembering. All kinds of things
may
stimulate this process, not necessarily art. A trek in the Australian outback is the inspiration for a new series of remembered and
re-invented landscapes'.