Artist Rose Autumn MA is a painter and draughtswoman with more than 20 years of experience making and exhibiting art.

Her established practice centred on finely rendered photorealist charcoal drawings and monochromatic paintings exploring the nature of perception and the domestic interior as a representation of psychological space.

Rose is now returning to her roots as a painter, developing a new body of landscape paintings inspired by the South Downs surrounding her home in Hampshire. Her current work explores the landscape through observational drawing with colour and painting.

Rose was recently selected for the South Downs Open at Petersfield Museum & Art Gallery.

Formerly represented by Long & Ryle in London, Rose was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and has been awarded the Drawing Prize at the National Open Art Competition, the Brian Sinfield Fine Arts Award at Pastels Today, and the Visitors’ Choice Award at the Brighton Festival Selectors’ Choice exhibition.  Her drawings were also included in Manifest International Drawing Annual IV and Drawing Room II, a survey of contemporary drawing at the Royal West of England Academy.

Rose achieved a First Class BA in Painting and an MA in Fine Art with Distinction.  She lives and works in Petersfield, East Hampshire, on the edge of the South Downs in southern England.

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EDUCATION
MA Fine Art (Painting) – Distinction, City & Guilds of London Art School (2005-2006)
BA (Hons) Fine Art (Painting) – First, City & Guilds of London Art School (2002-2005)
Art & Design Diploma, City & Guilds of London Art School (2001-2002)
A’Level Art, York Sixth Form College (1990-1992)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Open Studio, Lavant House, Lavant Street, Petersfield
2011
Interior Castle, Long & Ryle, 4 John Islip Street, London
2009
ARC Exhibition, Aspex Gallery, The Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
2008
Drawing Interiors (with Ruth Wallace), Bristol Drawing School, Bath Road, Bristol

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
South Downs Open, Petersfield Museum & Art Gallery, Petersfield
2013
London Original Print Fair (Long & Ryle), Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Art Fair (Long & Ryle), Business Design Centre, Islington, London
2012
Long & Ryle Artists, Lloyds Club, 42 Crutched Friars, London
London Original Print Fair (Long & Ryle), Royal Academy of Arts, London
Love Pastels, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
Works on Paper Art Fair, Science Museum, London
London Art Fair (Long & Ryle), Business Design Centre, Islington, London
2011
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, Bankside, London
National Open Art Exhibition, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
London Original Print Fair (Long & Ryle), Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Art Fair (Long & Ryle), Business Design Centre, Islington, London
2010
Gallery Artists Group Show, Long & Ryle, 4 John Islip Street, London
20/21 British Art Fair (Long & Ryle), Royal College of Art, London
London Original Print Fair (Long & Ryle), Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Art Fair (Long & Ryle), Business Design Centre, Islington, London
2009
Drawing Room II, Methuen Gallery, Royal West of England Academy, Queen’s Road, Bristol
National Open Art Competition Winners, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
New Contemporaries, The Bristol Gallery, Harbourside, Bristol
National Open Art Exhibition, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
1984, The Kowalsky Gallery, 33 Great Sutton Street, London
Pastels Today, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
Open Art Competition, Pallant House Gallery, 9 North Pallant, Chichester
Brighton Festival, House: Selectors’ Choice Exhibition, Brighton
2008
Acquire, Aspex Gallery, The Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth
Romance, The Kowalsky Gallery, 33 Great Sutton Street, London
Forget Me, curated by Gristle Mountain, Fort Brockhurst, Gosport
London Art Fair (Beverley Knowles Fine Art), London
2007
Notting Heaven, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
Gallery Artists Group Show, Beverley Knowles Fine Art, London
London Art Fair (Beverley Knowles Fine Art), London
2006
Boundary Gallery Prize for Figurative Art, Boundary Gallery, London
Nationwide Mercury Art Prize, The Hospital Gallery, London

AWARDS
Drawing Prize, National Open Art Competition (selected by Gavin Turk and Catherine Lampert)
Brian Sinfield Fine Arts Award, Pastel Society
Visitors’ Choice Award, House: Selectors’ Choice Exhibition, Brighton Festival
First Prize, Boundary Prize for Figurative Art (selected by Mary Rose Beaumont and Agi Katz)
Nationwide Mercury Art Prize (selected by Sir Peter Blake and Tim Marlow)