Rosetta Jallow


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Rosetta Jallow
City: Carrickfergus
Country: United Kingdom
Joined: May 2009

I was born in Carrickfergus in 1953. When I was 9 all I wanted to be was an artist and writer, so I wrote and illustrated a story in a school jotter. I was given some oil paints by an uncle when I was 14 and started painting local scenes on bits of hardboard. In 1971 I painted psychadellic murals in local boutiques. I went to Australia in 1973 and lived in Brisbane, where I sold paintings from the sun room of our collonial house, in Roma Street Forum and at Carina Gallery. I came back to UK, exhibited locally and sold artwork and copper relief pictures, painted a mural in a local restaurant and designed a fried chicken take-away box for them. I spent 7 years in Manchester and did a series of cartoons for Teddy Bear Times. I returned to Northern Ireland in 2006 and exhibit my artwork in libraries. I started using encaustic wax in June 2009 and sell encaustic wax pictures and cards.