Ros Harvey is a Member of the Royal Ulster
Academy and The Pastel Society of Ireland.
Impressions from a Donegal childhood have
enabled Ros Harvey to capture the vivid and rugged elements of the Inishowen landscape,
and is the essential focus of this artist. She has brought the primary
elements earth, wind, fire and water into her compositions.
From the shades of smoke, or reflections on
wet sand, to the dramatic intensity of a breaking wave or stormy sky, all are subtly
handled in her paintings. The establishment of Ballagh Studios, in the most
Northerly region of Ireland, with a showroom, print shop and framing workshop has helped
her to produce a coherent body of work in painting and print-making.
Ros has shown in the Royal Ulster Academy,
Belfast; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; and The Royal Society of Marine Artists,
London. She has been awarded the Guest's Choice Prize in the John Laing Open
Exhibition in the Mall Galleries, London, the Derek Hill Prize in the Glebe Gallery,
Donegal, the Pastel Society's Selector's Prize and the Kennedy Gallery Prize, Dublin.
She has also shown her work in Italy, Germany, France, The
Netherlands, the UK and USA.
Ros's last exhibition entitled "Island Doors" was a selection of deserted cottage doors on the
Islands she visited for her two Island books. This was held in the Forge Gallery,
Co. Louth.
