Lot 177 - Weronika Anna Rosa - Cymbidium Kellys Winter Orchid

Gouache and pencil on cotton paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
WERONIKA ANNA ROSA (b. 1990 in Warsaw, Poland) - visual artist, painter and designer, since 2016 based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Rosa grew up in a family involved in arts and natural sciences. These two distant, but strongly complementary worlds, constitute the pillar of her visual sensibility and sculpted her curiosity.

Plants play a vital role in her work - they are not only subjects, but also a vehicle of meanings and emotions. Rosa uses botanical iconography to explore relations between plants and humans; botany and its connection with current socio-cultural and environmental factors.

The artist captures the ephemeral matter of nature, looking into its strength and fragility, imperfections and beauty. Starting from a careful observation of plants, through botanical studies and realism, she abstractly scales the subject, bringing it closer to the size of a human body. Rosa intends to express the identity of plants by observing their essence, and by analysing their history and role in our culture. This naturalistic representation becomes a universal and metaphorical language.

Rosa experiments with various artistic techniques and media to obtain diverse textures, scales and volumes, in a way to reach the observer on different sensory levels.

Education
2019
Botany and Art, course at FCSH, Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal

2016-2017
Bachelor's degree in Ceramics, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal

2015-2017
Master's degree in History of Art, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal / University of Warsaw, Poland

2011-2015
Bachelor's degree in History of Art, University of Warsaw, Poland

2010
Drawing of Nature, course at the Natural History Museum of Marseille, France

Solo Exhibitions
2025
Vestígios de Memórias, National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal
(TBC), Cliché Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2023
Natura Ludzka, Galeria Prze?wit, Warsaw, Poland

2021
In search of Beauty, Minds&More, Lisbon, Portugal

2020
Fabric - The Master's Material (Tkanina - Materia Mistrza), Galeria Nizio, Warsaw, Poland

2019
(In)Visivel, Espaço Santa Catharina - ESC, Lisbon, Portugal

2018
Vivace, Galerie La Canopée, Lisbon, Portugal

2017
Secret Garden’s Metamorphosis, Transept, Lisbon, Portugal

Group Exhibitions
2024
Warsaw Art Fair (represented by Cliché Gallery), Warsaw, Poland
Souvenirs from faraway places, I have never been, Ethical Assembly, Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon Design Week, Artlier, Lisbon, Portugal

2023
Planatae, annual exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom

2020
Gardens, Analora, Lisbon, Portugal

Awards
2025
International Design Pool, artistic residency organised by Vista Alegre, Portugal

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
What intrigues me the most in flowers are details that are often neglected or unseen with a naked eye. We need to stop and take a time to observe, in order to perceive. Despite the limitation of the postcard size, I wanted to make the flowers as monumental as possible, and to capture the dancing movements of their petals and stamens. I hope you can imagine their scent.