Rosewood Art Studio - Home of the Muddle Headed Girl
Rosewood the Person
I am a mother, grandmother, veteran and amateur conservationist and naturalist. I have led an extraordinary life of love and passion, change and transition, wonder and loss, mastery and blunder, laughter and tears, travel and solitude, and above all, the celebration of the beauty The Great Spirit has surrounded me with. I have spent the vast majority of my life in large cities all over the country and world, working in offices and surrounded by brick and mortar. I traded skirts and dresses for chain saws, stockings and garters for tractors, and curlers and hair spray for hand tools.
Now in retirement, I wish to pass on to the world visions of my life as seen through windows into my soul. Each panel tells a story that weaves wisdom and nature with the unrealistic expectations society places on women. Rosewood art is about female empowerment, and I hope it speaks to you.
Rosewood the Place
Rosewood is very rural acreage that has been completely rewilded and given back to nature, The woods have gone through the Timber Stand Improvement Program and the large field has been converted from hay to entirely native plants, flowers and grasses. I have catalogued well over 100 different species of native flowers to date. I have lovingly installed two ponds, soft edges, brush piles and random trails, all designed to create a wilderness where all forms of wildlife can thrive.
It was always my lifelong goal to give back to The Creator all I have taken in my life. Rosewood lives and breathes, has a heartbeat and a rhythm, and whispers and sometimes screams to those who have the ability and will to listen. Rosewood is truly a remarkable place!
Rosewood the State of Mind
Nature was not put here to serve us, we were put here to serve nature. It speaks to us through the plants, trees, animals, insects and birds, the air and the earth, the water and the wind, and through its beauty and fury. It is an acquired state to hear it and only happens when you open your heart to its messages. The spirit animals of Rosewood that make themselves known to me are predominantly birds. The realization was nothing short of an epiphany and only came to me after starting the tireless and ongoing work of returning this land to The Creator. My art expresses this way of life and is incorporated into every panel of every story.
The spirit of Rosewood art centers around the unrealistic expectations society places upon women to be everything while never threatening anyone. Buy a house but there are no houses to buy... make money but not too much money... be the boss but don't be bossy... be attractive but not too attractive... be thin but not too thin. Rosewood art sets out to define these unrealistic expectations while offering an emotional tool kit to the modern woman which helps her navigate this difficult world. Such ideas are represented in art titled "refuse to know your place" and "she became her own light". The Rosewood logo, The Muddle Headed Girl, represents us all... just a little off kilter, just a little off balance, but she always has her heart in the right place. She is meant to inspire and empower.
Tradition
The Gift from My Uncle
At age 9, I held my first public art show at a local library. Shortly after, an uncle showed up bearing gifts. As he was gay and shunned by the family, it was the only time he was ever allowed in that house. He was an artist doing extensive work in photography, ink, charcoal, pencil and especially pastels. He gave me this box of Grumbacher pastels, vintage 1965. In every one of my hundreds upon hundreds of drawings, there are some of these pastels in them. I was lucky enough to tell him late in his life, show him some of my artwork, and pointed out where his pastels were. It makes me proud to pass this tradition to every piece of Rosewood Art.
Commitment to the Integrity of Our Limited Series
Every panel and every stand alone piece of Rosewood art has on its reverse side a hand crafted Rosewood Art Studio logo, a catalog number and signature and date. The catalog number also serves to assure buyers of the art that every limited series, such as the Muddle Headed Girl series, is limited to 35 original pieces per year. It also designates that all specialty series are cataloged together, such as the Rainbow series of the Expectations Women, the six panels of the Windows Into the Soul works, or art that comes in pairs.
Rosewood Art Studio is committed to maintaining the integrity and rarity of our all original collectable limited series editions. Each order comes with a signed and dated Certificate of Authenticity and a feather from Rosewood. Buyers of the art can be assured that our limited series remain original, rare and limited!
Actual reverse side of Rosewood art
Rosewood Art Limited Edition Prints
We are proud to offer Limited Edition collectable prints! The first offering is 6 Muddle Headed Girls in the colors of the rainbow. These are professional reproductions on a very high quality, acid free, heavy artist quality paper, very similar to the art paper all Rosewood art is created on. Each color is limited to 20 prints annually and each print is signed, dated and numbered to assure our customers that they are indeed collecting limited editions.
Each print is 7 x 10 inches and comes framed. A complete set of six is reduced in price. Please look into our Shop page where you will find all of Rosewood collectable art as well as some very special merchandise that we are very proud of!
Limited Edition rainbow set of Muddle Headed Girls
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Learn more about who she is, what she stands for, and her importance to women's issues such as equality, reproductive rights, women's rights and uplifting all women and girls everywhere. Empowered women empower other women.
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