Umfula Obomvu, Monoprint on Arches Text Wove with 24k gold leaf, 2019, ed: 1/1, image: 12” x 12”,Framed on cradled board, 12” x 12” price framed: $350.00
La Foce, digital print on mulberry, 2020, ed: 1/6, image: 10” x 8”, framed: 16” x 12”, price framed: $350.
Pink Rain, Monoprint with pastel on Arches 88, ed. 1/1 2019, image 12” x 12”, framed, 20” x 20”, price framed $400.00
Adriatic Sunspots, Monoprint with pastel on Arches 88, image: 12” x 12”, Ed: 1/1, 2019, framed (20” x 20) $400 framed.
“Floating III”, woodblock print with chine collé on Mulberry paper, ed: 1/3, 34” x 26”, 2020, $600.00 framed
World View, Lithograph-relief on Moulin Larroque, 2/3, 2019, image: 21” x 14”, framed: 27” x 21”, price framed: $500.
Drizzle, Monoprint with pastel on Arches 88, ed. 1/1 2019, image 12” x 12”, framed, 20” x 20”, price framed $400.00
Watery Vortex Artist: Rosemary Cooley Method: Intaglio with gold leaf and collagraph on Somerset paper Image size: 18.5”x 8.25” Framed: 22”x 16” Price framed: $300.00
Rosemary Cooley
Artist Statement
Rosemary Cooley was born and educated in the United States, but lived for 15 years in Africa, Asia and South America, and more recently she spent 4 years in Shanghai, China. The resulting perspective of cultures together with printmaking education in Italy, and Jungian studies have created a new awareness in light, color and content. A believer that process can be more important than product, her prints produce a wordless language based in dreams and aspirations.
Architecture, glass vessels, fish, water, trees and flowers combine to form the visual language of Rosemary Cooley’s prints. The addition of old script, evidence that each person can draw, adds humanity to the world view of these archetypal objects.
A natural progression from watercolor is the monoprint, a painterly process which begins on a plexiglas plate with oil or water-based inks. Japanese or other papers, may be added (chine collé) as the print passes through the etching press, creating a layered result. Intaglio is another favorite of Cooley, who uses the traditional acid etched method as well as Solarplate Intaglio, a non-toxic process which is etched in sunlight and developed in water. Lithography, using the Gum Arabic transfer process and Solarplate allow for the addition of remnants of old postcards and bills of lading, treasures of script uncovered in markets of France and Italy. Relief prints and Carborundum Collographs also feature in the work, sometimes in concert with the other methods. Cooley is a process driven artist who loves the mechanical and chemical surprises which printmaking reveals.
Her love for art history, which she has taught for many years, surfaces in unexpected ways. Cooley’s work is in the collections of the Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD, Library of Congress, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Georgetown University, Drew University, The International Headquarters of theAssociation of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Delbarton School, and many others in the U.S., South Africa, France, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, China and Japan.
