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The style is direct and simple. Often there is just one character. Yet every canvas tells a story. We can imagine a before and an after, like a still cut out of a roll of film. The composition, which is always carefully put together, reminds one of some of Edward Hopper’s pictures. Not surprisingly, he is one of her favourite painters.
Like him, Dot started her career as an illustrator and a graphic designer, after she had studied Fine Arts at the Beaux-Arts and the Higher Modern Arts School (ESAM), in Paris. She took part in the production of “old style” cartoons, before getting interested in infographics in the 80s. When that technique was being launched, she produced 2D and 3D images and cartoons for different TV channels and big companies, like Philips and L.V.M.H. “I have always felt comfortable with timing and space. It probably influences my work”, she explained.

Sitting in her studio on a mezzanine in her house in Montpellier, in the South of France, Dot spoke in an informal, friendly fashion. The surroundings are the same style : a wide picture window, white walls, exposed beams, few paintings hanging on the walls alongside souvenirs she brought back from her travels across four continents.
“It seemed to me that my turn had come to pass on what the different techniques I had explored and my encounters with people of various backgrounds had brought me.” A few months ago, she started painting again. Portraits, at first, and fantastic characters, from the children’s book illustration universe, which was her world for many years. Then, more and more, stories from her own experience or that of ordinary people.
“In the contemporary art field, I’ve long felt you had to show the dark or derisory aspect of people and things to be taken seriously. Whereas I see the beauty and the positive side of everything. Ordinary people’s stories seem extraordinary to me.”



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	The style is direct and simple. Often there is just one character. Yet every canvas tells a story. We can imagine a before and an after, like a still cut out of a roll of film. The composition, which is always carefully put together, reminds one of some of Edward Hopper’s pictures. Not surprisingly, he is one of her favourite painters. Like him, Dot started her career as an illustrator and a graphic designer, after she had studied Fine Arts at the Beaux-Arts and the Higher Modern Arts School (ESAM), in Paris. She took part in the production of “old style” cartoons, before getting interested in infographics in the 80s. When that technique was being launched, she produced 2D and 3D images and cartoons for different TV channels and big companies, like Philips and L.V.M.H. “I have always felt comfortable with timing and space. It probably influences my work”, she explained. Sitting in her studio on a mezzanine in her house in Montpellier, in the South of France, Dot spoke in an informal, friendly fashion. The surroundings are the same style : a wide picture window, white walls, exposed beams, few paintings hanging on the walls alongside souvenirs she brought back from her travels across four continents. “It seemed to me that my turn had come to pass on what the different techniques I had explored and my encounters with people of various backgrounds had brought me.” A few months ago, she started painting again. Portraits, at first, and fantastic characters, from the children’s book illustration universe, which was her world for many years. Then, more and more, stories from her own experience or that of ordinary people. “In the contemporary art field, I’ve long felt you had to show the dark or derisory aspect of people and things to be taken seriously. Whereas I see the beauty and the positive side of everything. Ordinary people’s stories seem extraordinary to me.” Eve Houllier

	From Dot Rose 's earliest works to her most recent, one can identify her past as a graphic designer. Dot’s style is symmetrical ; she keeps her palette simple and applies the right texture for the subject at hand. She provides only enough for you to focus on at whatever stage you harbour. Her works are comparable with David Hockney’s of the 1960’s and 70’s, although her unique realist and narrative style would have made two interdependent stories out of Hockney’s Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. (See Tango) Dot tells her stories one frame at a time; each piece can be read independently or as a contributor to the narrative that makes up Dot’s complete collection. Dot is a new face on the scene and one with much promise. She has a proven style and a story to share. CA York Mr. York received the 2008 ‘Outstanding Art Teacher Award’. He has had one man and group shows in Texas and Oklahoma for over 20 years. He was founder and publisher of The Patron, an art magazine to bring artist and art patrons together.

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