Rosina Rogers (1918–2011)

Biography

Rosina Rogers was a British artist from Dorset. Rogers was a largely figurative artist, working in a Post-Impressionist style, but in the 1960s she had an abstract period. This change in direction was likely inspired by her meeting Patrick Heron. He was her tutor at the summer school in Ulchfort Manor, Wiltshire and became a close friend. During the 1960s, Rogers looked to the St Ives abstract artists and must have spent time in Cornwall, where she painted an abstract work depicting the Nine Maidens, an ancient monument consisting of nine megaliths. Rogers worked in oil, collages and incorporated found materials into her abstract compositions. Her later work from the 1980s and 1990s is in a distinctive semi-abstract style, often depicting landscapes of Dorset.

Rogers was a member of the Poole and East Dorset Art Society.