All that is Good and Green: Working with found organic matter

  • "There are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood, in every spring, there is a different green"

    - JRR Tolkien

    Rosannagh often uses found or responsibly sourced organic matter, minerals and pigments in her paintings. These common natural materials represent Earth in its purest form, and lend themselves to a method of painting collaboratively with our immediate environment. Moss, lichen, flint, grit, nuts, berries, ochres, salts, twigs and chalk are ground into paint and canvas, layered to create texture, or combined with acacia tree sap to make natural inks. 

  • "Wallpaper peels where ivy grows, damp rises quietly through rotting floorboards, and trees burst through the tumbledown rooftops of abandoned buildings. Those little rebellions are far more beautiful to me than any polished surface or clean line. My eye is drawn to the lichen, not the wall; the weeds, not the paving… any sign of nature punching its way through the thin veneer we call civilisation."