Rose Strang SSA
Rose Strang’s inspiration comes from her relationship with landscape and the traces of memories it holds. Her process often includes research into history, literature and music.
Born and currently living in Edinburgh, Rose has exhibited throughout the UK at the Royal Scottish Academy, City Art Centre Edinburgh, Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh, Heriot Gallery Edinburgh, Resipole Gallery Scotland, Kilmorack Gallery Inverness-Shire, Limetree Gallery Bristol, The Demarco European Art Foundation, Corte Real Gallery Portugal and Gallery One Berlin. In 2018 she became a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)
I work primarily in landscape and still life painting, drawn to places and objects shaped by history and human presence. Light fascinates me; how it shapes form and how it reveals the material and intangible.
Rose Strang 2026
Times critic Giles Sutherland on Strang’s Living Mountain series:
A symphony of subtle essences, distilled experiences, fleeting memory fragments and deep, heartfelt lingering impressions … these paintings work slowly, generatively taking hold of our senses and our imagination. ***** five star Times Review 2023
Robert McFarlane, author of The Lost Words, The Wild Places and Underland.
In Rose Strang’s extraordinary paintings, no focal point is privileged. These are intensely dynamic paintings. Landscape, here, is not static backcloth or wallpaper … Water, in Strang’s paintings, is made strange again to the eye … astonishing in its persistence, dramatic in its presence.
Paintings can be viewed in WORK, above. Latest projects in NEWS and in-depth information in FEATURES
If you have any questions contact rose.strang@gmail.com
PRESS
2023. The Times ‘Rose Strang – Symphony of Subtle Essences and Lingering Impressions’
2023. Art Mag. Dreaming the Painted Word. Rose Strang responds to Nan Shepherd at the Scottish Poetry Library
2023 The National Nan Shepherd: Exhibition to mark 130th birthday of environmentalist
2022 The National Scottish Gaelic Gem
2022 Art Mag. Life on the Edge at Resipole Studios
2015 The Herald. ‘Artist gives back to landscapes that inspired her work’. By Susan Swarbrick, November 2015.
BIO
Living and working in Edinburgh.
2001 – Post Graduate Diploma, Museum and Gallery Studies, St Andrews University.
1997 – BA (HONS) Fine Art and Related Arts. Chichester University.
1989 – NC in Art and Design, Telford College, Edinburgh
2018 – Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists.
2010 – Cultural Leadership Training, London School of Design.
EXHIBITIONS. CURRENT AND UPCOMING
2026
Anew. Limetree Gallery, Bristol. Launches 12th February
2025/2026
Winter Exhibition, Open up a World of Beauty. Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh. 14th November to 18th January
EXHIBITIONS. PAST
2025
The Living Mountain. Exhibition and artist’s talk. Braemar Literary Festival organised by Art Farm on behalf of Hauser and Wirth in association with the Queen’s Reading Room. September 27 and 28th.
Festival Exhibition. Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh.
Spring Exhibition.Limetree Gallery, Bristol.
Summer Exhibition. Limetree Gallery, Bristol.
Edinburgh Festival Exhibition. Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh.
2024
Winter Exhibition, Fidra Fine Art Gallery, Scotand.
Autumn Exhibition, Limetree Gallery, Bristol.
Summer Exhibition. Limetree Gallery
20th Anniversary Exhibition. The Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland. Launching Sunday 30th June.
Summer Exhibition. The Heriot Gallery, Edinburgh. Summer Exhibition
2023
The Living Mountain:Dreaming a Response. Solo exhibition. April. The Heriot Gallery, Dundas Street, Edinburgh.
The Living Mountain: Dreaming a Response. Solo exhibition. February/March. The Scottish Poetry Library, Crichton Close, Edinburgh.
Borrowed Land Kilmorack Gallery
Edinburgh Art Fair. Edinburgh Corn Exchange.
Christmas Exhibition. Limetree Gallery
Winter Show. Heriot Gallery. Dundas Street, Edinburgh.
Aberdeen Art Fair Limetree Gallery
SSA at the Caledonia Club London
Summer Exhibition Limetree Gallery
RSA Annual Exhibition (online)
2022
From the Mountains to the Sea. Limetree Gallery
Coast. Jim Wright and Rose Strang. Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Ardnamurchan.
2021
Affordable Art Fair, Online. Limetree Gallery
Commissioned by The Folio Society London to create a series of nine paintings for their publication of The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd.
2020
A Subtle Touch. Rose Strang, Anna King and Mhairi McGregor. Limetree Gallery, Bristol.
Winter Exhibition. Limetree Gallery, Bristol
Autumn Exhibition. Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland
Summer Exhibition. Limetree Gallery, Long Melford
2019
Ardban. Limetree Gallery An Ealdhain, Fortwilliam, Scotland
The Planets. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. Demarco Galleries, Summerhall, Edinburgh. Paintings by Rose Strang. Talk by Dr Michael Ward (author of Planet Narnia. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis).
Winter Miniatures. Abbeyhill Studio, Edinburgh.
SSA Open. Society of Scottish Artists, RSA, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Christmas Exhibition, Limetree Gallery, Bristol
Small Works. Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh
2018
Texture. Rose Strang, Vivienne Williams, RCA, Henry Jabour, Limetree Gallery, Bristol.
SSA+VAS Open Exhibition. Society of Scottish Artists. Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Spring Exhibition. Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland
First Look. Limetree Gallery, Long Melford
The Winter Show. Resipole Gallery, Acharacle, Scotland
Edinburgh Art Fair. Limetree Gallery. Corn Exchange, Edinburgh.
Christmas Show. Limetree Gallery, Bristol.
2017
Winter Series: Music and Image. Abbeyhill Studio, Edinburgh
Isle of Harris. Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh
Christmas Show. Artpistol Gallery, Glasgow.
Edinburgh Art Fair. Corn Exchange. Lime Tree Gallery.
A Sense of Place. Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
2016
Harbours. Freespace Gallery, Edinburgh.
Snowscapes. Gayfield Creative Spaces, Edinburgh.
Borders. Whitespace Gallery.
Sea and Sky. Marchmont Gallery, Edinburgh.
RSA Open. Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2015
Spring Show. Flaubert Gallery, Edinburgh
2014
WEST: The west coast and beyond. Gallery Ten, Edinburgh
2013
Winter Exhibition. Sutton Gallery, Dundas Street Edinburgh. Winter Exhibition
2012
On a Small Scale. Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2007 TO 2013. Public artist/Curator for NHS: University Hospital North Staffordshire. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Leverndale Hospital, NHS Glasgow and Greater Clyde. Ninewells Hospital, NHS Tayside.
2001 to 2006
Artist/Co-curator on Transitstation, Edinburgh and Berlin
2000
70/2000 The Road to Meikle Seggie. City Art Centre Edinburgh.
Rose Strang Artworks 