Rosemary Taylor - Artist

Rosemary Taylor is an inspiring artist and patient teacher, with a comfortable teaching studio in Cork’s picturesque Lee Valley.

She started painting in watercolour in 1990, and developed a unique style in the medium to represent the Irish landscape and flowers. She now works in a mixture of media including pencil, charcoal, pastel, pen and ink, powdered graphite and pigment, watercolour, acrylic and oil paints. Her work, both as an artist and as a teacher, explores the use of drawing as the essential expression of seeing. This is reflected in Rosemary’s use of line and tone to represent both the human form and the natural, primal forms of our physical and spiritual worlds.

Rosemary and her husband Alan live in the Lee Valley, West Cork, between the villages of Inchigeelagh and Ballingeary. This rugged and beautifully varied landscape, offers a wide range of opportunities for the landscape artist, with hills, bogs, valleys and farmsteads overlooking the broad glaciated valley of the River Lee.

Rosemary has been teaching art to children since 1985, while working with Alan at their leather craft business. Her love of drawing and painting lead her back to college, as a mature student, and she graduated in Fine Art, from the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork in 2004. While continuing to practice and exhibit her art, she has run courses for adults in Macroom, Bantry and in her own studio since her graduation.