Artist in Mixed Media and Design

Biography

Rosette Schureman was born in Princeton, New Jersey. She attended Utica College, Oneonta State University and completed 2 years of studio courses and eventually received a degree in Fine Arts from Syracuse University.

 She has exhibited throughout Central New York, the Adirondacks and on Grand Manan, an island in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick Canada. She had a house and studio there for 8 years. She also spent many seasons painting on Monhegan Island, Maine. Her work is in public and private collections in the US and Canada. 

 She maintains a painting and printmaking studio in upstate New York in the foothills of the Adirondacks on her family farm.

 In addition to her studio work she is a photographer, gardener, enthusiastic cook, an avid reader, writes poetry and haiku and knits and spins wool during the winter months.

Statement

With a camera, a traditional press, an inkjet printer and a scanner, I print on archival hand-made papers including a variety of rice papers and surfaces that I make using acrylic paint and gel mediums.

I bring elements of the outside world into the studio where I make arrangements composed of fresh and dried flowers, seed pods, leaves, feathers and so on.

I scan and take rubbings from what I collect on my walks and add these remnants to subjects that I have previously printed and photographed, sometimes printing directly from leaves and petals whose impressions become part of the finished piece.

Exploring new ways of seeing and engaging with my surroundings has helped me develop a personal language that enriches my experience, encouraging me to grow as an artist.

I continue to make collages using my own digital imagery in combination with acrylics, paper and drawing mediums to create layered constructions.

Additionally, I’ve recently been working in black and white by painting directly on rice papers and watercolor paper. The immediacy of painting this way balances with my more calculated approaches that I engage in with collage.