How to Order
Please contact Joni Rose to arrange the purchase of paintings. You may email me or call 973-701-1914. Prints may be purchased online with the "purchase" buttons on the prints page. Shipping for prints is $20 per print and there are no returns.
About the Artist
Joni Rose is a professional artist who has exhibited her paintings throughout the United States for over 25 years. She is currently represented by Creatively Yours Art Gallery in Chatham, New Jersy, eyeonart.com and Print Barn, New Hampshire. Her work is in private collections with Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY; New York Life Insurance Company, New York; Community Preservation Corp, New York. Publications that show Joni's work include The New York Art Review, 1988; Encyclopedia of Living Artists in America, second edition; Hi Fashion Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, July 1987; Contemporary Women Artists Calendar, 1986.
Joni Rose studied at The Sir John Cass College School of Art in London, England and then set off for a career in fine art as a painter.
I was born and raised in the metropolitan New York area. A need to express myself and frequent visits to museums at an early age inspired me to become an artist. As a child I wrote and illustrated stories that I read to my sisters. I submitted my first story to Random House at age 11.
In college, American University, I studied painting. My junior year took me to London, England where I studied art extensively at Sir John Cass College School of Art and established myself as an artist. I sold my first painting at that time.
Returning to the States, I moved to Green Mountain Falls, Colorado and set up a studio. Yearly visits to New York galleries were very positive and I began showing my work at Azuma Gallery in Soho. At 24, I participated in my first two person show at Unicorn Gallery. Realizing the need to be closer to New York, I moved to the Berkshire Mountains in Massachussettes. I ran a craft gallery that enabled me to paint, exhibit my work, and make sales. My work was developing as I was learning more about color and design. I switched from acrylics to oils. Now my work really began to blend and flow. A benefactor supported my first silkscreen prints.
The move to New York came in 1982. There, I continued with landscape painting and city scenes. I had a studio on East 24th Street and in the summer, a studio in Amagansett, Long Island. I am inspired by landscapes as the sky and the ways to represent it are endless. Shadows and color play with design, and I enjoy the creation of color blends and forms.
Through Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, editions of lithographic prints were made from my original oil paintings. The success of these prints has led to the production of other editions of various oil paintings.
The aim of my work is to convey the experience of color and existence. My paintings focus on the range of feelings elicited through color. I am looking to explore the interdependence of color with form and placement. Colors in connection with form (the landscape) have transforming effects on the individual. There is extraordinary energy in color and an interconnection with life.
Recognizing the need for children to express themselves, I have established small painting classes. I presently am busy in my studio working on oil and watercolor paintings."
-Joni Rose