ARTIST STATEMENT

“Artists are privileged to be blessed with a certain visual joy. One shares perceptual experiences by recording one’s impression of pleasing images, thus sharing the joy with the viewer.” 

My love of art has taken many avenues and crossed into varied mediums, but I have always believed that my innate gift was observation, accuracy. and precision. I’ve enjoyed honing those skills during life studies for instance. For that reason my artistic style is rarely abstract. I frequently employ measuring by sight and often do the same when I have worked on many portraits and landscapes in oil and pastel. For 15 years I was annually commissioned for portraits to be used as corporate gifts. I also work in pastels and oils. My joy of printmaking is partly due to the use of new and inventive techniques.

BIO

Virginia Rosa is an award-winning Buck’s County, PA artist. She is an exhibiting member of the Philadelphia Water Color Society and The American Color Print Society. Virginia has demonstrated her working techniques at Penn Charter School (as Artist in Residence), The American Color Print Society ,  American College , Del-Val College, and The Montgomery County Guild of Professional Artists.  She was an exhibitor for 12 years at the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual of Philadelphia as well as the Philadelphia Art Show and Sale . Her work was featured annually at Historic Yellow Springs Art Exhibition in Chester Springs , PA. from 1989-2010.  Virginia has studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Tyler School of Fine Art, and has engaged in extensive private instruction with artists of national reputation.

Articles about her art work have been featured in

The Philadelphia Inquirer                         The Bucks County Herald
The Beachcomber, “Art on the Island ”  Jersey Shore Vacation Magazine
The Ambler Gazette                                  The Montgomery County Record 

Her work is also in the permanent collections of:

Astra-Merck, Chesterbrook , PA, The Hankin Group, Campbell ‘s Soup, and Stuart Huston Charitable Trust