Rosalind EASTMAN

Rosalind EASTMAN
2024

Eastman with her husband Chris THOMAS moved to North Cornwall. She taught art in secondary schools, and was an adult education tutor in art history. She also worked for the Footsbarn Travelling Theatre Co. She was a member of the North Cornwall Seven Group and exhibited with them around Cornwall, including their exhibition in 1998 at the Falmouth Art Gallery. She also exhibited at Rainyday Gallery in Penzance.

Her studies in Fine Art were originally at Reading University, where she was taught by Ray ATKINS and John Wonnacott. In 2003 Eastman was employed as an art therapist by Cornwall Partnership Trust, working with adults with mental health problems.

Rosalind Eastman died in 2024.

media

Painter in oils, teacher, art therapist

works and access

Works incl: Mother & Child (col pl: Falmouth Exh Cat 2000)

exhibitions

1998: Falmouth Art Gallery group show

2011: Forty Years On (with Chris Thomas), North Cornwall Museum & Art Gallery

2016: 'Sea Shore' at Half Acre, Boscastle (June)

2024: In Memory of Rosalind Eastman, Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, nr Launceston (1-31 Aug)

memberships

North Cornwall Seven Group

references

Exh Cat: 20 Years of Contemporary Art at Falmouth Art Gallery 1980-2000