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Rosa Fedele

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Born

Sydney, Australia

Website

http://rosafedele.com/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/rosafedeleart

Genre

Suspense, Mystery, Fiction

Member Since

June 2015

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“For me, every painting and every book is a new adventure, started with a thrill of excitement and anticipation.”

Rosa Fedele is an Australian contemporary artist and author based in the beautiful Central Highlands, Victoria. Unconstrained by conventional expectations, Rosa’s work is genre-defying, often veering into the world of whimsy, her style a blend of figurative, illustrative with a touch of absurdism.

Whimsical, playful and nostalgic, her DREAM MACHINES series is a vibrant and joyful collection of works celebrating vintage and classic cars and Italian scooters, often accompanied by darling doggos and romantic beauties from the silver screen.

“I’m passionate about preserving these wonderful old machines on canvas; reflections and sunshi “For me, every painting and every book is a new adventure, started with a thrill of excitement and anticipation.”

Rosa Fedele is an Australian contemporary artist and author based in the beautiful Central Highlands, Victoria. Unconstrained by conventional expectations, Rosa’s work is genre-defying, often veering into the world of whimsy, her style a blend of figurative, illustrative with a touch of absurdism.

Whimsical, playful and nostalgic, her DREAM MACHINES series is a vibrant and joyful collection of works celebrating vintage and classic cars and Italian scooters, often accompanied by darling doggos and romantic beauties from the silver screen.

“I’m passionate about preserving these wonderful old machines on canvas; reflections and sunshine flashing off seductively curvaceous chrome, the patina of old duco, bumpers wrapped lovingly around steel bodies, the layers of colour and texture and, of course, delicious red rust.

I hope that my paintings will take you on a heart-warming and joyous ride in your favourite classic convertible, Italian silk scarf billowing in the breeze and faithful hound by your side.”

Rosa has been a finalist in numerous awards, including the Portia Geach Memorial Art Prize, Almenara Art Prize (Spain), Copes Portrait Prize and Kennedy Prize; her work has been exhibited in NSW Parliament House, Parliament House Canberra as well as galleries and exhibitions in Australia and worldwide, and hangs in the Delta Airways Business Lounge LAX.

Rosa fell avidly in love with books at a very young age. Her favourites were those by C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, and later on Raymond E. Feist, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey and Frank Herbert; in fact, anything with beautiful and spellbinding words and imagery that would allow her to escape into other worlds.

Taking a leap from creating pictures with a brush, Rosa transitioned to conveying images with words, publishing two illustrated suspense novels, both set in Sydney of the past. Both Rosa’s art and writing is sumptuously decadent and wickedly eccentric: blurring the line between reality and truth, she challenges the viewer and the reader to suspend their disbelief and enjoy the melodrama.

Her debut illustrated suspense novel THE RED DOOR was the fulfilment of a lifelong dream, to interweave a story with pictures and draw the reader into her own bewitching, and slightly dark-edged, world. The sequel to her modern gothic mystery THE LEGACY OF BEAUREGARDE was released in 2018.

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You can found out more about Rosa Fedele at http://rosafedele.com.au/ or follow on https://www.facebook.com/rosa.fedele.... or https://instagram.com/rosafedele/
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What are you currently working on?

Rosa Fedele Once again it's based around an old building in Sydney. This time, The Abbey in the suburb of Annandale. It's an extraordinary Gothic revival mansion …moreOnce again it's based around an old building in Sydney. This time, The Abbey in the suburb of Annandale. It's an extraordinary Gothic revival mansion built in 1881-1882 with a dominating tower which is a local landmark, and a high enclosing stone wall. It's also rumoured to be haunted! In my book I've picked up the Abbey and moved it to another historical (and now very affluent) Sydney site, Hunters Hill.

If you love Grand Designs or Restoration Home, any of the X Factor or Got Talent shows, you'll love this story. There's television crews, pop stars, creepy towers, drug lords, angst and melodrama ... and yes, some of your favourite characters from The Red Door might even make another appearance ;)(less)

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Rosa Fedele Besides architectural inspiration (see my previous Goodreads Q&A answer) I tend to observe people and their environments with an artist's eye. We are …moreBesides architectural inspiration (see my previous Goodreads Q&A answer) I tend to observe people and their environments with an artist's eye. We are taught not just to look, but to see. Just as Amsterdam has its own pearly and intimate light, perfectly captured by Vermeer and de Hooch, and the English countryside its own gentle grey-blue drifting clouds, so masterfully interpreted by Constable, Sydney has a particular atmosphere of its own. The sky’s blue is so startling it can burn retinas, the edge of every leaf is knife-sharp, the heat can singe nostril hair and our birds don’t twitter or chirp – they screech!

I suppose having a portraitist’s eye also helps: I watch inter-personal dynamics, mannerisms, the tilt of a head, a finger rubbed nervously across a philtrum. And so, as a character forms in my head, I make initial thumbnail sketches. Eventually these become finished drawings or paintings which I then incorporate into the book.

A peculiar thing I've also noticed: characters will take on a life of their own – just when you’ve got the plot sorted, the little buggers wander off and do anything they bloody please! Halfway through THE RED DOOR, my main girl’s behaviour was infuriating me. So, I tore up my first sketches and re-painted her as I preferred her – a no-nonsense woman with tenacity and resilience – and slowly she started to come around and see it my way ;)
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JUNE 2024 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | Centennial Vineyards, Bowral

SO WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING LATELY?

Lots of commissions. I mean, lots. Here’s just a few of my faves …

This painting was selection as Foundation’s Choice in the
2023 KENNEDY PRIZE!
SO EXCITED FOR SPRING [I wet my plants]

This painting was selected for the 2023 HUNTERS HILL ART PRIZE. And more amazing news about this one later in the year …
JULIET ft 1964 Mini Cooper

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BOWRAL LONG LUNCH – JULY 2024

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