rosemary riskin

Rosemary has been creating since she was a small child, making art and designating various home spaces as galleries, including murals applied directly to unsuspecting walls.

Her first formal foray into the arts was through folk art, first freely expressing what she saw followed by the study of the Early American applied arts. She attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design earning first a BFA and then her MFA. Recently returning to MCAD to study the business of becoming an illustrator she found that she was able to employ skills learned during her folk art period as well as the multiple vehicles learned while working towards her fine art degrees. Precisely, printmaking, artist's books, painting and drawing, as well as the basics of color theory, design, and a sense of her place in the long evolution of art history.

Carrying that creative tug a step further, a visionary in her home life she used fabric, thread and "whatnots" to produce beautiful, yet functional, articles for her walls and home furnishings. That influence is particularly apparent in her collage and femmage work, using domestic tools as her creative palette.

Being facile in her fine art undertakings has enabled her to work in various areas of illustration including children's images, editorial work, prints and patterns, collage, product design, landscape and still life. Always creating, the need to express herself freely and prolifically has been the common thread through out her life. Her offerings in illustration are but one more medium of her visionary spirit.

Rosemary is very strong in her ability to take an idea and run with it. Given a project she is able to provide complete sketches well within deadlines and finished work to everyone's satisfaction. She is a gifted artist that loves the process.