In her evocative new piece Cascading Emotions, Rossie invites us into a realm where the ocean and human emotion become one. The painting—created using her signature technique of acrylics, silicone oil, paint pouring, and heat—pulses with life, embodying both serenity and turbulence. It is a visual poem about the dual nature of feeling: the joy and the ache, the stillness and the storm.
Sometimes emotions are incredible, elating, a phenomenal gift and other times they are overwhelming, negative, paralyzing. Much like the sea that inspires her, Rossie’s work is a dance between depth and surface, between the seen and the felt. In Cascading Emotions, the viewer is encouraged to find beauty even in discomfort, to see waves of struggle as part of life’s immense, mysterious beauty.
Inspired by the Ocean’s Wisdom
Rossie, a Bristol-based abstract artist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, has long drawn creative nourishment from the ocean. To her, the sea is not merely a physical body of water—it is a spiritual metaphor, a mirror that reflects our own depths, secrets, and transformations.
In Cascading Emotions, that metaphor reaches full bloom. Layers of blues, turquoises, greys, and glimmers of white crest and break across the canvas in rhythmic flow. There is movement, but there is also pause. The silence between waves becomes as meaningful as the waves themselves. This interplay, this dance between calm and chaos, mirrors the inner emotional terrain that she explored with such sensitivity.
The Technique Behind the Emotion
Rossie’s method is as fluid as her subject matter. Using paint pouring and heat techniques, combined with silicone oil to create cellular formations, her works evolve organically. Cascading Emotions is no exception. It wasn’t planned in detail—it was felt.
This tactile, intuitive approach allows her to give form to things that are often formless: grief, joy, longing, resilience. With each pour, each tilt, and each moment of surrender to the medium, the painting takes on a life of its own. It becomes less about controlling the outcome and more about partnering with the process—a philosophy that mirrors the act of navigating one’s emotions.
An Artist With Purpose
Rossie’s mission is clear: to uplift and inspire through her art. Her body of work is not only visually striking but deeply compassionate. It speaks to those who have felt lost in their emotions and those who have learned to float in them, to find grace even in the struggle.
As an artist, Rossie brings not only technical skill but also emotional authenticity. Married and a mother of three, she understands the tides of life deeply. Her work is lived, not just imagined. Her experiences—both joyful and challenging—are woven into every canvas.
A Flourishing Career
Rossie’s work has resonated widely. She has exhibited and sold pieces across the UK, including at North Street Gallery in Bristol, the Brick Lane Gallery in London, Bath Contemporary Artists’ Fair, Grace Network in Stroud, various Bristol Arts Trails, the Salisbury Arts Scene, and a PWC exhibition in London. Most recently, she had a solo exhibition at Cass Art in Bristol.
The momentum continues, with upcoming exhibitions including three joint shows at Spetchley Park Gardens in Worcester and a highly anticipated two-week solo exhibition at the Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery in Chichester this September. Each show brings Rossie’s work to a wider audience, amplifying her message of emotional authenticity and natural beauty.
The Power of Reflection
Cascading Emotions is not simply a painting—it is a space for reflection. In the same way that one can stand before the sea and be humbled, one can stand before her canvas and feel understood. The emotions within the work do not demand resolution. Instead, they ask for presence. For stillness. For appreciation of the body and mind that have weathered so many internal tides.
“In times of reflection,” Rossie writes, “I can see beauty in the waves of what we experience. Even thankfulness for our bodies and all they have been designed to get through.” This gratitude—both tender and profound—imbues her art with a rare kind of hope. It does not deny pain, but honors it. It does not sugarcoat, but it soothes.
Art That Moves Like Water
At a time when so many people feel overwhelmed by the emotional noise of the world, she offers art that whispers instead of shouts. Art that flows instead of forces. Cascading Emotions is a quiet revolution—a call to slow down, to feel more, to embrace the full spectrum of human experience with courage and compassion.
Whether one sees crashing waves or slow drips, chaos or calm, the real subject of the piece is the viewer’s own internal world. Rossie’s gift is to hold up a mirror not just to the sea, but to the soul.
