ROSEMARY OTTO
1938-
Excerpt from
Sunshine from Darkness
The Other Side of Outsider Art
Artists Reaching Beyond the Stigma of Mental Illness
by
Nancy Glidden Smith
Nancy Glidden Smith
The ocean has beckoned Rosemary since she was a child. Ocean scenes play a prominent role in most of her paintings While a child in Germany during the second world war, she received a set of crayons from her artist mother. Rosemary was used to dark colors so the bright colors impressed her with their beauty. She returned to the United States and her first breakdown occurred at age 19. She has had thre major setbacks since, one of which resulted in a three year hospital stay. At first she hated the hospital but the people helped her think of it as home. In the hospital she turned to oil painting and fell in love with that medium. Now Rosemary creates unique primitive triptychs with vibrant colors which, along with her etchings, engravings, and paintings, have been in numerous galleries in Florida where she she has lived for many years.
Rosemary Otto
at
Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art Gallery
Rolando Chang Barrero Fine Art Gallery
711 Lucerne Ave.
Lake Worth, Florida 33460
Lake Worth, Florida 33460
courtesy of
Bruce Webber
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