Rosalind Porter is a musician and painter. In her youth she was equally at home in both genres, learning not only the cello, but also drawing and painting. She profited in art tuition from her father, a Royal College of Art graduate and ceramicist and she spent much time in her youth in London studying and drawing in various London museums.

As an adult, music dominated Porter's life for a long time. Parallel to her career as a cellist however, she unwaveringly pursued her activities in painting. She later turned her back on music entirely in order to freelance as a painter. 

Rosalind Porter is an existential artist. She is best known for her depictions of wide, semi-abstract, melancholy landscapes. She dedicates her oil paintings to the mystery of the horizon.  In her work, where filigree detail is reflected in the painting’s bigger idea, she tries to interpret nature as a quest for personal meaning in relation to the overall horizon surrounding us. Manifestation of the human condition becomes an organic visual process in her paintings, which are paradoxically devoid of true human life. In her figurative paintings and graphic work, this quest continues. It is always about finding allegorical metaphors for a state beyond tangible reality.

In the last few decades Rosalind Porter has dedicated herself entirely to painting. Her recurring broad and desolate landscapes with dramatic use of colour and gesture, are inspired by the impressive bleakness of northern England. The play of light on the horizon forcefully draws the observer's attention out into an unknown imagery.

Rosalind Porter was born in London, England in 1950. The artist currently lives in Treuchtlingen, Germany.