Nature Portraits
Custom Animal Portraits
About the Artist
Rosellen grew up in the college community of Gunnison, Colorado which provided the grandeur and splendor of the Colorado Mountains at an early age. Within that early childhood came the enjoyment of sharing time with horses and other family pets. Rosellen’s interest in art blossomed when her family moved to the suburbs of Denver, Colorado where she attended High School. Rosellen continued her art education, graduating from the Colorado Institute of Art.
Rosellen has spent most of her life in the close company of dogs, cats and horses; and one of her greatest enjoyments is to convey the emotions and insights she has gained from these experiences into her work. Working mainly in colored pencil she feels that she can blend these feelings into the natural beauty and grace of creatures in her images. One of these images “Watching…” was featured on the cover of the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, and the Colored Pencil Society of America Explore This! 4, Exhibition. “Watching…” features one of Rosellen’s German Shepherds in a posture and attitude he often assumed during her work sessions. Rosellen has also displayed works at the Montana Interpretations Juried Art Exhibition in Butte, Montana where she won best of show with a piece titled “A Mothers Love”. Another of her works “What’s up” has been included in the Southeast Montana Works on Paper Juried Exhibition. This image is of her young mustang mare she acquired from the destruction of the famous Pryor Mountain herds, and shows the natural intelligence and curiosity of horses.
Rosellen currently lives and works in her home along the Yellowstone River East of Billings, Montana. Her works in progress include wildlife, equine, and landscape renditions of the local species and vistas; as well as illustrations for a children’s book which utilizes the combined mediums of colored pencil, and goauche.
