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 intuitive, expressive paint application with deep contextual research. Whether responding to literary landscapes, historical conflict, ancient folklore or site-specific ruins, I seek to explore the less visible resonances of a place: the traces of time, story and human experience that shape our understanding of it.

My painting is an ongoing enquiry into how landscape holds meaning, and how our relationship with the natural world, history and memory is continually formed and reimagined.

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 create eight paintings in response to Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain, for its 2021 illustrated edition. Her work is held in private and public collections internationally including the Demarco Archives in Scotland and Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland.

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

November 5th. Graystone Gallery, Edinburgh. Winter Exhibition

November 7th. Limetree Gallery, Bristol. 20 Years Later

2027

Summer 2027 (Details tbc) The Living Mountain 50th Anniversary. Braemar Gallery, Scotland.

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