Rozi Turnbull

Creative Energy Art

City Hall Exhibit — Artists Questions

Where were you born?

I was born in England, a small town not far south of London called Dorking, in the beautiful countryside of Surrey. I grew up in an artistic and creative family, I am the middle child of 5. My 2 sisters are also artists, art educators like myself. My older brother owns a ski lodge in Austria and my younger brother is a restoration decorator and an employed musician on tour with a Beatles Tribute band on the cruise ships.

When and under what circumstances did you move to Houston?

I have travelled and lived in many different parts of the world with the oil industry and my family; from Alaska to Scotland and Indonesia. This is the third time I have lived in Houston. Each time a different stage of life and circumstances. Now my children are grown, flown the nest and I have a fulltime art studio. I am also a real estate agent with Keller Williams specializing with relocation. As re-settling has been my life experience I love to guide others on this path, and using my talents in charity ventures and as a mentor to other Artists.

What Induces you to live and work in Houston today?

I love this city, it's very green with all the rain we have had. I make use of all the updated parks and trails, I love to ride my bike to take in nature and stopping to sketch or photograph the views for inspiration. There are so many fantastic events to keep up with, in venues big and small. I especially love live music and theater big and small independent, and the many Art related events. I find it easy to get around, I have my studio inside the loop and spend my weekends up in Conroe.

I am able to work in freedom at my home studio at all hours, often late is when I have the most momentum, when all is quiet and the demands of the day dissipate. I do from time to time teach art workshops. l paint live for events as I am a fast painter and happy for people to watch. Often my best work comes when I procrastinate less and just do it! I like to think the energy comes through that way. I love to work on commissions so please check out my website.

Artists Information

Rozi Turnbull

(512) 994-9072

RoziTurnbull@gmail.com

www.roziturnbull.com

Artists Bio

My bio from my website:

Rozi Turnbull was born in Dorking (Surrey), England, a middle child from a musical and artistic family encouraged to paint form a young age. Her early career was in high end fashion in London. She studied art at the University of Alaska-Anchorage and has taught art on and off for 22 years. Turnbull has exhibited in Scotland, Indonesia and in the United States in Houston, Conroe and Bastrop, Texas, as well as Anchorage, Alaska. Her awards include “Best of Show” at the 2001 Girdwood Mountain Arts Festival (Anchorage), the “People’s Choice” at the 2000 UAA Faculty show and several top-three wins in annual juried shows at the Conroe Art League. 

Turnbull served as President of the Watercolor Art Society of Alaska in 2000 was the International Exhibition Chair for the 2002 Watercolor Art Society of Houston, Exhibition Chairperson for the 2008 and 2009 Indonesian Heritage Society’s Art and Photography Exhibition. She has also organized successful art shows in Alford and Inverurie, Scotland, as well as presiding over the Anchorage Center for Families “Paint-A-Thon.”  She was a chosen Artist to contribute to the “Bootiful Wimberley” project in Wimberley, Texas in 2014, painting two 6-foot fiberglass cowboy boots that are on permanent display in the town.

Turnbull currently works and teaches out of her own studio in Houston.

My Artists Statement from my website:

My Work is a continual attempt to understand the personality of a single brushstroke, when it has life and movement, when it compromises and blends, where it is so direct and purposefully placed that it rings true.

I am inspired by nature and my surroundings, ever changing skies, seascapes, landscapes and the abstract that I can see in it. I am influenced by the work of Winslow Homer, Turner, Monet and Van Gogh. Each for the fresh life their work still holds, their personality and emotion that shows through the loose brushstrokes.

I strive to achieve a certain freshness and energy in my work, allowing some soft unfinished edges where one can follow and let the imagination wander. This visual communication invites the viewer to complete the narrative, by bringing his or her own experiences to it.

My new work is the passage from the inspiration, through the struggle, and finally the resolution. I allow each painting the freedom to change in this process, it is in the give and take and acceptance with the medium. A design balance for me with each stroke affecting the next.

I feel I have achieved my aim when the viewer can find a connection.

Currently showing at:

·         Art Connections Gallery in Bastrop, Texas

·         Copious Deli, Rosenberg, Texas