Rosalind Porter - vita

Born in London in 1950, Rosalind Porter came into contact early on during her childhood with the art profession through her father. He was a professional ceramicist art teacher and former graduate of the Royal College of Art, London. In addition, his various artist colleagues contributed to her first formative artistic impressions.

She studied the cello in London at the Royal College of Music where, among other cello prizes and scholarships, she received the Tagore Gold Medal. Further cello studies led her to Paris and Detmold in Germany.
She subsequently gained recognition as a soloist and principal cellist in German symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles.

Throughout her carreer as a cellist, Rosalind Porter never stopped painting. Parallel to music, she maintained her activities in art, studying further life-drawing and etching (in Braunschweig, Bamberg, Erlangen and Nürnberg). She began exhibiting individually in 1991. Later she gave up her cello-playing completely in order to concentrate on art.

Her main work focuses on abstract-expressionist landscape painting but she also does realistic painting, figurative drawing and sculpture

Rosalind Porter has given many solo exhibitions in Germany, mainly in Bavaria and between 1995 and 2001 in Saxony and Thüringia.

Many of Rosalind Porter's works are now institutionally or privately owned in Europe and overseas: eg. Germany, Switzerland, Cyprus, Australia.

Rosalind Porter has lived in Germany since 1972 and since 2001 in Nürnberg.

Institutional sales:

Museum of Art Collection Erlangen (2000)

Sparkasse Bank Neustadt/Aisch (2002)

Sparkasse Bank Fürth (2007)

Unicredit Suisse Bank Zürich, Schweiz (2008)