Artist and author, David Malcolm Rose.
By David Rose
I’ve spent the last few years as a member of the Artists’ Workshop Gallery (AWG). AWG is a co-op, and members are required to spend time sitting in the gallery. I’ve never had a job where I was asked to interact with the public before, it was a new and enjoyable experience.
It’s not at all uncommon to see parents with children come into the gallery. The families walk from panel to panel while the parents point out details in the paintings, photographs, and three-dimensional works. For me, seeing this was the best part of the job.
A young art student can learn from a teacher, they can read about art, and see photographs in books, but there is no substitute for seeing the real thing.
Young artists can see canvases with paint as smooth as glass or as thick and creamy as icing on a cake. There are watercolors that are carefully directed and contained, and others where the medium flows freely. Pastels, colored pencil, pen & ink, pottery, jewelry: AWG has some of everything. 32 members, 32 variations on the theme.
Artists’ Workshop Gallery is a business; we show and sell our works, but sometimes the gallery speaks to a higher purpose. Those are the best of times.
As an artist, David Rose won both the Arkansas Governor’s Award and the Delta Award. His works are in the collections of Tim Robbins, Bruce Springsteen, & Susan Sarandon. As a writer, he flunked every English class he ever sat in. Born in Woodstock, NY, he is very much a product of the 1960s and never really managed to escape that fabled decade. Visit Rose on Facebook: David Malcolm Rose.
