Rosalind Ormiston

I am an art & architectural historian, arts & travel writer with books published on art movements, such as Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and the Dutch Golden Age (not a movement but...) And, artists including the fabulous Dutch painters Hieronymus Bosch, Johannes Vermeer, Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt van Rijn; the Renaissance Masters: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo; plus the uniquely talented Paul Gauguin, William Morris, Egon Schiele and Edward Hopper. 

Latest features:  

'Life on the Lake', Italia! magazine (April issue), a 6-page feature on Lake Maggiore, in northern Italy. what to see, do, places to stay, places to visit, places to eat.

'My favourite place in Italy'. My choice of Castello di Rivoli, near Turin, in Italia! (April issue, p.16)

'Joachin Sorolla', in Artists & Illustrators  magazine (April issue) marking the National Gallery, London exhibition of 'Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light'. The feature focuses on Sorolla's extraordinary painting technique, in conversation with the exhibtion's curator,Christopher Riopelle. Exhibition opens 18 March 2019. (Above, on carousel, The Young fFsherman, Valencia, 1904, by Sorolla, discussed in feature.)

'Guiding Light' in Artists & Illustrators magazine (March issue), celebrating Rembrandt350 in 2019 (see below)

'Decoding Da Vinci'  in Limelight, (published in Australia), published 7 January 2019. 

https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/decoding-da-vinci/

'Of Visionaries and Kings' in France Magazine, (published UK and North America) 'Loire Valley' January 2019 issue.

2019 is REMBRANDT350, marking 350 years since the death of Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn. Many exhibitions to see.  'Rembrandt and Saskia: Love in the Dutch Golden Age' is at the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden.  Exhibition runs until 17 March 2019. Rembrandt's drawing of himself and his wife Saskia (on carousel), is from the exhibition. Many more, including All the Rembrandts, opening at the Rijskmuseum this month, and Dulwich Picture Gallery (October).

2019 is the quincentenary of the death of Florentine artist LEONARDO DA VINCI. The artist is being celebrated throughout Europe this year. I came across the 'Leonardo da Vinci' rose (on the carousel) during a press tour of the Loire Valley,in 2018, in prep for Viva Leonardo! in 2019.

2019 marks the 450th anniversary of the death of the genre painter Pieter Breugel (c.1525-69), regarded as the 16th century's greatest Netherlandish painter. Exhibitions in Brussels, Flanders, and worldwide this year.