Bio/Resume

As Rose says “my soul is filled with joy when I awaken in the morning to the anticipation and excitement I experience when I begin painting.”  Since moving to Tucson in 1998 from New York, her passion, dedication, and love of all that is Southwest is blazingly evident in the work she creates. From a professional background in psychotherapy, Rose has a deep understanding of human interactions, adding a palpable level of conscious reality and complete honesty to her wildlife art.

Self taught as an artist, she painstakingly studies other artists, is a voracious reader and researcher, frequents galleries as a means of educating herself and uses her vast knowledge and mastery of photography to incorporate composition and perspective into her designs.  

   She was invited to jury into the prestigious Mountain Oyster Art Show in Tucson in 2011-2016. Presently her work is exhibited in Jane Hamilton Art in Tucson, Arizona, and Tracy Miller Gallery, Manitou Springs, Colorado. In 2017 she was invited to show in the prestigious CowGirl Up show, featuring woman artists of the West.  July 6 - August 30, 2018 she will be showing at SouthWind Gallery in Topeka, Kansas with 25  female western artists in "Daughters of the Prairie. This show will be about the Great Plains  and depict paintings of the flora and fauna of the area.

For more information on Rose you can contact her at: rcollinsartist@gmail.com  (520) 850-8446