Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of love, sex and beauty, born of the aphros: “foam,” of Uranus (the heavens) OR perhaps a feminine counter to the wrath of Titus Cronus? Rosie wants to depict women as thinkers, strong, singular entities not mother or queen or sex objects, able to indulge and be guilty of sloth, envy, lust or power and still maintain feminine beauty – sirens. Some titles connect to powerful women in history, feminist icons and femme fatale. Experiencing depictions of women in Degas delicate dancers and burlesque bathers, Rodin’s fallen in the gates of hell and sexualised drawings of women: Gustaf Klimt, Egon Sheila and Eric Gill; Henry Moore’s gigantic queens and powerful mothers cradling infants reinforce the same depictions investigated in Archaeology. Rosie’s prints allude to the depiction of form through line: influenced by the women in Picasso’s blue period drawings and reductionist line drawings by Matisse. More recently, Rosie has associated her Siren prints with goddess figures, from different global and historical contexts. Image size 35cm x 28 cm - framed size 50cm x 43cm (approx) Monoprint, edition of 5 - cardboard cut, water based inks and with gold and silver glaze, paper. cm RRP unframed £350.00, framed £400.00.