Earlier this year I had a second solo exhibition since moving to Albuquerque: Rose Marie Prins: Paintings, at ChatterAbq. I was thrilled to have finally found a space with walls high enough to accommodate my large mixed media paintings, most of them on unstretched canvas. These works are primarily from a series of paintings I started when I last lived in New Mexico. I continued working on the series in Virgina and then Florida. Below

In the late summer of 2022 I moved to New Mexico. I made the move for many reasons, but high on my list was that I missed the mountains and mesas and the vast landscape of the high desert.  Before I left St. Pete—that sleepy little town that I arrived in twenty-two years ago that became unrecognizable as progress, and tourism, discovered it—I participated in one final exhibition. This was Beyond Words: Celebrating the Art

On a Monday afternoon in early March, the couple who purchased my mixed media piece, “Leaving, Terra Firma with Teak Leaf,” held an event in their home in my honor. One member of the couple invited several of her friends to a high tea, while her husband acted as cheerleader and videographer. Among the delicacies served were traditional English cucumber and watercress sandwiches!  I was asked to talk about the piece they had purchased which

This article, a combination of a few of my blog posts relating to collaboration, will appear in an upcoming edition of Arts Coast Magazine, Creative Pinellas’ on-line magazine:  For well over two decades both making art, mostly mixed media paintings and sculpture, and teaching art, have been my focus. While I have done hundreds of residencies as an Artist-in-Residence with the New Mexico Arts Commission; VSA New Mexico and Florida (now Arts4All); the Virginia Commission for

Here is the invitation to the Dunedin Fine Art Center‘s monthly Coffee and Conversation series. (The video of our conversation is below.) Coffee & Conversation with Rose Marie Prins is at NOON on Tues., Jan. 11th (Virtually!) Hanging out, drinking delicious coffee, talking about art… ahhhh, that’s the life! Well, that WAS the life at least for an hour or so each month at the Dunedin Fine Art Center’s Coffee and Conversation series, sponsored by DFAC’s Sterling