BIOGRAPHY
Born 1979 into a family of artists, I grew up in Philadelphia and a remote island in Maine. I have been a prolific oil painter my entire life. Figure Drawing classes began for me when I was 16 years old at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia. I received my BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (2001) and completed their European Honors Program in Rome. I also studied at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. Right after art school I landed in Durango, Colorado for a job with a hotshot wildland firefighting crew, was fired, met my partner, started a family and restarted my art career.
I love to exhibit my artwork in a local hobbit home I designed and built with my partner; the two story earth-bermed structure houses site specific paintings and figurative oil paintings completed throughout my life. My hobbit "gallery" is open to all as a short term rental in Crestone, Colorado. I also have shown in galleries in Santa Fe, Durango, and Oaxaca, México. I started and facilitated figure drawing groups in Durango, Colorado and now Crestone. I created three large self portrait oil paintings commissioned for book covers by an art collector and author; the published trilogy spanned 2021-2025.
I currently live and paint in Crestone, Colorado, a Dark Sky Community adjacent to the Sangre de Cristo mountain range and Great Sand Dunes National Park.
This photo was taked during the group exhibition Visionary Forest, 9/11/2020 in the woods of Crestone, Colorado, USA.
Here's a fun interview with figure painter Meredith Rose by Alejandra Cid in English and Spanish. Filmed in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico where the artist lived for a year and painted prolifically. Many locals were painted from life on large canvases during that time. FedEx accidentally sent the art to Durango, Mexico TWICE. The artist eventually received her paintings at her Durango, Colorado address.
CLIENTS
Private collections in the USA, Canada and México
