About Roz Hamer

Roz Hamer has lived and worked in Derbyshire for almost 30 years. Previous roles have been as a Staff Nurse, and then as a teacher, until a ‘career break’ to care for grandchildren, which then became permanent as she determined to focus on her art full time.

Roz has always drawn and painted for her own pleasure and for commissions, which in the past were executed in watercolours. A significant inspiration in her life are the relationships between people, their sense of ‘belonging’, and the landscape they inhabit .

In 2019 Roz completed the year long Porthmeor Programme at the St Ives School of Painting. This has helped her clarify her own artistic ‘voice’ and supported her in gaining the confidence to explore new approaches, tools, and media.

Working from ‘The Amazing Space’ studio at her home, Roz’s approach to her work is process driven, reflecting on a subject and allowing the images to develop and emerge from the materials and paint. She selects the paint medium that best helps her realise her vison for any given subject. Roz is skilled in the use of both oil paints and acrylic medium.

Roz frequently has work displayed in her local area and commissioned pieces are in private homes across the UK.

Beyond the sphere of her artistic life, Roz enjoys hula hooping and music of many genres. She is also a keen walker and likes to be outdoors with her family as much as possible.

The artist explains the essence of her work

“When I view a landscape, people or places, I am aware that, to me, things are rarely simply what they seem.

I sense inherent movement in these things. Movement and change, over time, from one state to another.

Sometimes we miss the actual moments of change and perceive the ‘space’ and this is where my imagination and emotions attempt to ‘fill the gaps’. Simply, things may not always be just what they first appear to be.

Looking deeper, my view and perception is always filtered by my emotions, experiences, and sense of self.

This is what I am trying to convey in my work, whatever the subject or medium: the impermanence, the space, the flux and uncertainty, and yet too an underlying continuity.