Three by Three: Guest Artists in Focus

QUESTION 2.    If your Grandmother looked through your portfolio, what story would she think you were trying to tell?

• ANSWER 2.   This is a very good question! I'm not sure about my Grandmothers as I hardly knew either of them but I reckon she/they would see a restless trail of someone trying to thrive where they were planted and a desire to express the sunlight falling on things.
  Since early childhood I've grown up and married into a family of nomadic working men with trailing spouses. My Grandmother was one herself as was my mother. We uproot and get replanted with cheerful possibly idiotic optimism and get on with it. Goodbyes and new friends are always in the mix. My portfolio is a drawn album of places I have lived. Hong Kong, Uk, West Indies, Mexico, Thailand and Dubai. And we havnt stopped yet!
  Nevertheless, as I get older I'm keen to explore my inner landscape and be more abstract and interpretive in my approach.

Roz (Rosalind) Keep
Painter - watercolour

BIO: Roz (Rosalind) Keep, 63, is a British-Irish painter, born in Hong Kong, who lives in Lamma Island, Hong Kong. She works from her home studio and focuses on landscapes, marine environments, climate and loss.

Having a nomadic childhood due to father's work, she was shaped by living in the Caribbean, Asia and the Middle East. She went to University in UK at Cheltenham and Brighton Colleges of Art.

Roz's watercolours have been mostly produced en plein air in the landscapes of Lamma's rocky coastlines and more recently she uses mixed media in the studio.

In 2008 she founded Island Arts teaching kids on the island about nature through art and, while chairing a local environmental charity, painted on fish boxes to highlight plastic waste in the sea.
Today she is preparing an exhibition on trees lost due to climate change and also splits her time between HK and Hua Hin,Thailand where she is painting watercolours at Wat Khao Krailart.
She is part of a community choir, plays ukulele and practices meditation as a student of Buddhism in the Plum Village Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.


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QUESTION 3.   What do you paint when no one will ever see the images?

• ANSWER 3.   I have some still life, florals, collages, mindful doodles, and neurographica doodles, which I haven't shown anyone. I do alot of these to keep my muscles working, my sense of design sharp and my 'colour brain' awake. Art is a full time practice which one never seems to perfect so we keep making whether anyone sees it or not. We just cant help it.
  

QUESTION 1.     What's a technical mistake you've made that became essential to you style?

• ANSWER 1.    There is nothing major that comes to mind with this. Ive been drawing and then painting landscapes my whole life sometimes in watercolour sometimes acrylics or mixed media but, to be honest never knowing what I was really doing. I was not trained particularly well by anyone except teachers at secondary school who always gave us quite a bit of freedom to explore though so perhaps straying into unknown territory and making a horrible mess of things comes quite naturally to me!
  
  I also like to take a sketching kit outside which includes paints and small sketch book but somehow I always seem to leave one key piece of equipment at home by mistake so I've really learned to make do with what I have and improvise. I've used alot of ball point pens up because of this.

Kwan Yin Goddess at Khao Takieb.
Watercolour 11x15 ins

Cave of the Buddhas
Watercolour 11x15 ins

Moon Rise Over Monkey Mountain
Watercolour 22x15 ins

All copyright and reproduction rights are reserved by Roz (Rosalind) Keep.
Artwork may not be reproduced in any form without the artist's express written permission.

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