Weronika Anna Rosa Cymbidium Kellys Winter Orchid, 2024 Gouache and pencil on cotton paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) About WERONIKA ANNA ROSA (b. 1990 in Warsaw, Poland) - visual artist, painter and designer, since 2016 based in Lisbon, Portugal. Rosa grew up in a family involved in arts and natural sciences. These two distant, but strongly complementary worlds, constitute the pillar of her visual sensibility and sculpted her curiosity. Plants play a vital role in her work - they are not only subjects, but also a vehicle of meanings and emotions. Rosa uses botanical iconography to explore relations between plants and humans; botany and its connection with current socio-cultural and environmental factors. The artist captures the ephemeral matter of nature, looking into its strength and fragility, imperfections and beauty. Starting from a careful observation of plants, through botanical studies and realism, she abstractly scales the subject, bringing it closer to the size of a human body. Rosa intends to express the identity of plants by observing their essence, and by analysing their history and role in our culture. This naturalistic representation becomes a universal and metaphorical language. Rosa experiments with various artistic techniques and media to obtain diverse textures, scales and volumes, in a way to reach the observer on different sensory levels. Education 2019 Botany and Art, course at FCSH, Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal 2016-2017 Bachelor's degree in Ceramics, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal 2015-2017 Master's degree in History of Art, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal / University of Warsaw, Poland 2011-2015 Bachelor's degree in History of Art, University of Warsaw, Poland 2010 Drawing of Nature, course at the Natural History Museum of Marseille, France Solo Exhibitions 2025 Vestígios de Memórias, National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal (TBC), Cliché Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2023 Natura Ludzka, Galeria Prześwit, Warsaw, Poland 2021 In search of Beauty, Minds&More, Lisbon, Portugal 2020 Fabric - The Master's Material (Tkanina - Materia Mistrza), Galeria Nizio, Warsaw, Poland 2019 (In)Visivel, Espaço Santa Catharina - ESC, Lisbon, Portugal 2018 Vivace, Galerie La Canopée, Lisbon, Portugal 2017 Secret Garden's Metamorphosis, Transept, Lisbon, Portugal Group Exhibitions 2024 Warsaw Art Fair (represented by Cliché Gallery), Warsaw, Poland Souvenirs from faraway places, I have never been, Ethical Assembly, Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon Design Week, Artlier, Lisbon, Portugal 2023 Planatae, annual exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom 2020 Gardens, Analora, Lisbon, Portugal Awards 2025 International Design Pool, artistic residency organised by Vista Alegre, Portugal Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork What intrigues me the most in flowers are details that are often neglected or unseen with a naked eye. We need to stop and take a time to observe, in order to perceive. Despite the limitation of the postcard size, I wanted to make the flowers as monumental as possible, and to capture the dancing movements of their petals and stamens. I hope you can imagine their scent. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.