About Me

 

                                                       

 

Roz is a Scottish painter based in Perthshire working primarily in large-scale oil on canvas and board. Her work explores light not as a description of place, but as a psychological and emotional experience.

Before returning fully to painting, Roz spent over a decade working as a professional lighting designer. Alongside commercial practice, she researched and presented international conference papers on light and its impact on human psychology, speaking in both Rome and Singapore. This sustained engagement with light, and how it shapes mood, perception and behaviour, now underpins her visual language as a painter.

Originally trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee, Roz studied as an artist and printmaker, including time abroad in the United States. Her early grounding in fine art was followed by a career in lighting, before a gradual return to painting allowed these two disciplines to merge. The result is a practice rooted equally in observation, technical understanding and lived human experience.

Now based in the Perthshire countryside, near the gateway to the Scottish Highlands, her work has slowed in pace and sharpened in focus. Living and working alongside the rhythms of family life and caring for young children has deepened her awareness of seasonal change, how light stretches, fades, cools and intensifies across the year.