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ABOUT THE ARTIST ARDEN ROSE
Arden Rose paints scenes around the world in
the French Impressionist style. Her oil paintings, watercolors and prints
are influenced by such Impressionists as Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Pissarro,
Cassatt, Bonnard, and Sorolla. Though her technique is reminiscent of these
masters, using small brush stokes, emphasizing color harmony and light,
her style is her own, exhibiting greater vibrancy and clarity.
Among her colorful subjects are scenes around the
world; landscapes, people in scenes, local color, gardens, flower markets,
vegetable markets, landmarks, fishermen, old bridges, polo matches. She
captures the essence, life and character in all that she paints. She
paints in plein air and also from photographs that she has taken during
her extensive travels.
Arden Rose's scenes around the world include France
(Paris, Loire Valley, Nice, and the Riviera); England (Oxford and Henley);
Italy (Lake Como, Florence, Tuscany, Bari); Caribbean (especially St.
Barthelemy, French West Indies); New York (Central Park and the Hamptons);
and California (including Santa Barbara, Big Sur, Carmel, Yosemite, and
San Francisco).
In addition to being an accomplished artist, Arden
Rose has been a consultant to corporations as to how to enhance creativity
and create a relaxing environment through color. She also had an extensive
career as a Child Psychotherapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and
Licensed Marriage Family and Child Counselor after graduating from UC
Berkeley. Upon graduation, she combined her painting career and Child
Psychotherapy career to become a pioneer and author in the field of art
therapy for disturbed children, especially autism.
EXHIBITIONS
Arden Rose was born in Boston, Massachusetts, currently
resides in Santa Barbara, California, and has a winter art studio in
St. Barthelemy. She has exhibited at Galerie Laurens on Avenue Matignon
in Paris, France; at Galerie Marumo in Los Angeles, California; and at
Campanile Galleries Inc. in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1993, she was nominated for the Award of Arts
and Letters to the Minister of Culture in France. In June 1993 and June
1994, she was invited by the French government to be the American artist
guest of honor at the Fêtes des Impressionistes. In November 1992
she received the certificate of excellence in the New York Soho International
Art Competition juried by the American art critic, Dennis Wepman. In
December 1992, the book Arden Rose, the Vision of a Painter was
published, with the preface by the renowned art critic and art historian
André Parinaud.
During October and November 1987, Arden Rose exhibited
at the Salon d'Autumne at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, and in May
1988 at the Festivale Internationale in Osaka, Japan, and in June 1988
at the Museé Guimet in Paris France.
During November 1982, she participated in a group
exhibit at Galerie Marumo as the only living artist amidst the paintings
of such French Masters as Pissarro, Bonnard, Dufy, Signac, and Utrillo.
On February 28, 1982, she had a one-woman exhibition
of her paintings at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco,
sponsored by Cyril Magnin.
Arden Rose graduated from the University of California
at Berkeley. She is the author of the book Interacting Through Creative
Arts Activities, published by Pitman Learning, Inc. She is a biographee
in the millennium edition of Who's Who in the West, and is a
biographee in the millennium edition of Outstanding People in the
20th Century, published by the International Biographical Centre
of Cambridge, England. She is also a biographee in the 2003 edition of Who's
Who in America.
Arden Rose’s paintings are in exclusive private
collections as well as corporate collections, internationally. Among
these are AT&T, Baxter Health International, the former CEO of Union
Bank of Switzerland, former President of Campbell Soup International.
You are welcome to view the artist's paintings and
limited edition prints or commission a special subject. Slides of available
works may be sent to you.
CRITICS' COMMENTS
"Arden Rose's painting, radiant with color and harmony,
speaks the truth. It thus appears like the affirmation of our dearest
desire to find paradise lost - once again..."
- excerpt from the preface in English
and in French, by André Parinaud, Art Critic, Art Historian;
Paris, France
Published in the book Arden Rose, the
Vision of a Painter
(this book may be ordered from Arden Rose)
"Arden Rose is the best Impressionist artist in the
United States! The lyrical harmonies she paints are so outstanding
in beauty, color, light and Impressionist technique, that when I saw
her exhibit at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall,
I suddenly had the feeling it was 1882, and here was Monet and Renoir."
- F. Lanier Graham, Former Chief
Curator, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco;
Former Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Art Historian:
Author of Three Centuries of American
Painting, and Three
Centuries of French Art
"I don't wonder that Arden Rose has a corsage of
loyal and enthusiastic collectors around the country. I found in her
work an interesting and paradoxical mixture of stillness and tranquility,
vitality and excitement, and overall an attractive luminosity. I am invited
into her paintings, made to feel at home and even at peace. I sense in
them a timeless continuity, and I like that, too."
- Charles Champlin, Former Arts Editor,
Los Angeles Times
Champlin on Film, Bravo Cable System
"Arden Rose is a painter of high and great talent,
first American, then French, then universal. Her paintings have an extraordinary
luminosity, vitality and clarity which reflect life as it is, and that
is very rare. Her subjects live, vibrate and bring brightness and gaiety
to the world."
- Henri Viard, Scénarist de Cinéma
et de Télévision, Chateau d'Assay, France
"Arden Rose expresses beauty of the art form through
her use of color with a vividness and honesty that will be obvious to
the viewers of her exhibitions. She uses color gorgeously!"
- Rollo May, Ph.D.; author of both The
Courage to Create and Love
and Will.
ART THERAPY
Arden Rose developed structured art therapy activities
involving tasks conducted in silence including painting, sculpting, music,
dance, writing, and drama, followed by group discussion, in order to
promote self-awareness, communication, and to work out problems.
She instituted and tested these activities internationally.
Her book, Interacting Through Creative Arts Activities, went
around the world and sold out to teachers.
One example of her success in art therapy was a
disadvantaged seven year old African-American boy diagnosed as "autistic" who
started speaking after 2 months of her doing art therapy with him.
She also developed family art therapy, group art
therapy and couples art therapy as well as instituting these techniques
for use with schizophrenics, alcoholics, physically challenged children
and adults such as deaf, blind, and cerebral palsy.
Arden Rose taught art therapy at UC Berkeley and
John F. Kennedy University before choosing a full-time art career in
the mid-'80s, going on to become an internationally renowned artist.
Arden Rose is available for training seminars for
corporations, teachers, therapists and private individuals of all ages
who wish to enhance their creativity and work out problems through art
therapy. She is also available to consult with corporations as to how
to enhance creativity and create a relaxing environment through color.
PUBLICATIONS
Arden Rose, the Vision of a Painter (48
pages in color plus preface by André Parinaud, Art Critic, Art
Historian; Paris, France) $50 plus $10 for shipping and handling in US
or $15 for shipping and handling outside US.
Interacting Through Creative Arts Activities,
Handbook on Art Therapy for teachers to help children work out
problems; $40 plus $10 for shipping and handling in US and $15 for
shipping and handling outside US. If you wish to purchase a book, make
checks payable to the Rose Collection and send to Arden Rose, P.O.
Box 90625, Santa Barbara, California, 93190-0625 USA.
All sales handled by Rose Collection, the sole distributor
of Arden Rose's artwork.
All prices are in U.S. currency.
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