A native to New England, Rosemary has spent most of her adult life in Putney, Vermont. She was born into a large family which strongly supported any interest in the arts. As a child she drew and painted. She has taken art classes wherever she was able, at schools including Rhode Island School of Design, University of Rhode Island, Franconia College, Marlboro College, and the Art Institute of Boston.

Throughout the years of raising her two children and working various jobs she maintained a home business doing illustration and graphic design.

In 2001 Rosemary met master painters Richard Schmid and Nancy Guzik and became one of their ongoing group, "The Putney Painters." At this pivotal point she became dedicated to painting full time. As well as working with Richard and Nancy, Rosemary has also taken influential workshops with Jeremy Lipking, Albert Handell, Diane Rathe, Kathy Anderson and Dennis Sheehan.

Working in a "traditional" style, Rosemary paints small pieces which strive to capture the transcendent beauty she sees in simple scenes and objects. She is best known for her intimate portraits of found objects - nests, feathers, shells, and flowers.

"It is the small things, beauty in bits of nature, acts of kindness between people, which sustain our spirits. I would love each of my paintings to be one of those small things."

Since her debut as a painter, Rosemary has won the Leonard Meiselman Award for Traditional work at the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Exhibition in New York; "Best in Show" award at the Regional Hospice Arts Festival in Connecticut; been featured in "100 Ways to Paint," published by International Artist Magazine; been an invited artist to the National Art Club Round Table Show in New York; and included in the Women Artists of the West "East to West -- Meeting in the Middle" show in Illinois.

Rosemary lives in rural Vermont with artist John D Smith, and is affiliated with Village Arts of Putney as a painting teacher and a regular "Putney Painter."