My work explores landscape, memory, and cultural heritage as a poetic record, revealing layers of history, mythology, literature, and human experience.

Working primarily in oil and mixed media, my process balances visceral, intuitive paint application with deep contextual research. Whether responding to literary landscapes, historical conflict, ancient folklore, or site-specific ruins, I aim to capture the invisible resonance of a place: the intangible traces left by time, story, and human presence.

Ultimately, my painting is an inquiry into how land retains narrative, and how we, in turn, find meaning within it.

Rose Strang SSA is a Scottish painter based in Edinburgh whose work investigates memory, history, and literature in landscape. Known for her expressive, atmospheric painting process, her practice spans conceptual series exploring topics from literary ecology and medieval cosmology to historical traces and the effects of conflict.

A professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists, Rose has exhibited widely across the UK, including the Royal Scottish Academy, City Art Centre Edinburgh, and the Demarco European Art Foundation. In 2020, she was commissioned by the Folio Society to illustrate Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain. Her work is held in private and public collections internationally including the Demarco Archives in Scotland.

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 MacFarlane, 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 PAINTINGS, above. Latest projects in NEWS Artist background and exhibition history in C.V./BIOG and and more info about art projects in FEATURES

If you have any questions contact rose.strang@gmail.com

EXHIBITIONS. CURRENT AND UPCOMING

2026

Traces. 19th August to 12th September. Boardwalk Beach Club, Edinburgh. Exhibition/film hosted by Richard Demarco CBE as part of his 2026 festival programme; The Artist as Pilgrim.

Autumn Exhibition. 18th September to October 31st . Limetree Gallery, Bristol