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Rose-Marie Goodwin (née Svenhard Johnsen), born in Sweden, came to Canada’s West Coast as a child. She sketched family members at the kitchen table, beginning a life of creative expression.

These days she primarily expresses her creativity in acrylic painting, having experienced water colour and pastel, lost wax silver casting and wood sculpting. Rose-Marie’s unique style is a result of constant study since the mid-80’s, including the Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Capilano University, Vancouver; Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; and in workshops with accomplished artists. The artists who have been her inspiration are Caravaggio, Degas, O'Keeffe, Hopper and Gavazzi.

Rose-Marie is dedicated to creating encouraging work, heightened by her desire to offer people from all walks of life images that bring them ‘rest’. A studio painter and accomplished colourist, she enjoys sharing images of her beloved West Coast, the Rockies, Mexico and beyond. “I have always been attracted to the ‘corners of our world’, vignettes of everyday life with dramatic light, colour and shadow”.

Most recently juries have selected her works for shows at the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA), Vancouver; the Sidney Fine Arts Show; Kelowna's Art Visions; and the Silk Purse Art Gallery and Ferry Building Art Gallery, West Vancouver. Her works are in private collections in Canada; and in Washington, California, North + South Carolina and Sweden.

Visit my website: www.rose-marie-paintings.com

Some limited edition gallery-quality reproductions (giclee) are available.

Contact me at: rose-marie @ rose-marie-paintings.com

Paintings available "on approval" and/or may be purchases over time.

If you are interested to explore having me do a painting for you (a commission), please let me know.