About the Artist

                                                 

Roz is a Scottish painter based in rural 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.

Originally trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee, Roz studied as an artist and illustrator, including time abroad in the United States. Growing up in a household immersed in skateboarding culture, her earliest visual influences came as much from graffiti, skate videos and album artwork as they did from galleries. During her illustration studies she went on to explore street art more formally, and the expressive freedom, movement and layered mark-making of skate, surf and graffiti culture continue to shape her paintings today.

Before returning fully to painting, Roz spent over a decade as a professional lighting designer. Alongside commercial practice, she presented her research at international industry conferences.  These looked at light and its impact on human psychology. This sustained engagement with light, how it shapes mood, perception and behaviour, now underpins her visual language as a painter.

Her return to painting coincided with a move from city life to the Perthshire countryside and a period of personal recalibration. Recovering from a prolonged illness post-covid, painting became less about producing images and more about rediscovering stillness, attention and presence. Living among the changing seasons has deepened her sensitivity to how light stretches, fades, cools and intensifies throughout the day, becoming both her subject and a quiet source of restoration.

Working in expressive layers of oil paint, Roz creates atmospheric works that sit somewhere between landscape and memory. Her paintings invite viewers to pause, breathe and reconnect with moments of calm, reflection and light.