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Rosemary de Goede

Rosemarie De Goede was born in Punta Arenas, Chile. She was raised on a large sheep farm surrounded by horses, cats, dogs, cows, pigs, chickens, ducks and 45,000 sheep.

She was mainly self taught except for a monthly drawing lesson from a local art teacher in Buenos Aires. In later years she has attended courses on life drawing and mixed media painting, studying and working with a number of well known artists.

Her unique and lively drawings are much sought after by collectors, and her work is held in many collections, public and private, at home and abroad. Her illustrations of Arab horses have earned international acclaim.

She is known for her monochrome palette, expressing the weight of a torrential rain shower, punctuated with flashes of bright red, fuchsia or orange in a bold umbrella sheltering a figure from the rain, or the Wellington boots of a child splashing in the puddles.

Rosemarie attributes her limited use of colour and her passion for horses to her childhood home, Terra Del Fuego. Describing it as a windswept place, where the grass was burned by roaring gales, and there was not much colour of any sort, except around the house where the grass was protected by huge windbreaks. Horses were the main means of transport, Cars were unreliable on the rough boggy tracks.

Rosemarie is a member of the prestigious Society of Women Artists and has exhibited widely with them and a number of galleries throughout the South of England.