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A modern painting by Rose Adare using gesso. photo courtesy Rose Adare
KeOlaMagazine.com | July-August 2017
Francisco Academy of Art. Instead of enrolling in a master’s program, Rose, at 28, was accepted to The Atelier for Classical Realism run by the living master David Hardy. This immersive experience shaped her as a fine artist. Because she was mentored, coached, and nurtured as a painter, Rose is paying it forward in her own space, The Muse Studio. Since she can currently only take six students at a time, she is ready to expand. A two-car garage-size studio in HPP will be the new home to Muse in the summer of 2017, and Abled Hawai‘i Artists will provide any support it can. Rose’s extraordinarily detailed portraits lovingly contextualize subjects in every way a full-body portrait can, through choice of scene, background mood colors, surrounding objects, clothing, accessories, facial expression. Treatment of light, shadow, brushstroke, how paint is laid on—these factors all contribute to the emotive quality of her work. It’s as though you can hear and feel the essence of her subjects on the canvas. That’s because Rose is able to “see” right into people she paints. She connects to the spirit of her subjects, and from there works intuitively, instinctively, always listening to what the brushes, the canvas, the colors want to say. “If I feel some resistance, I’ll take a break,” she notes. “I don’t want to fight with my brushes or the colors. If I do, it will show up on the canvas.”
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Michael and friend Zach sell at a Merrie Monarch craft fair. photo by Paula Thomas