ABOUT ROSE


 

 

 

BIOGRAPHY



Artist, traveller and jewellery maker, Rose Cecil, has lived in Cornwall since 2002. She worked as a painter for many years, travelling to places like the Galapagos Islands or Africa to paint, photograph and draw and then exhibiting the resulting body of work.


In 1999 she returned to college completing a sculpture degree course at Camberwell College of Art and working for the first time in three dimensions. With a young family and an increasing interest in working with the natural world she moved to Cornwall and started making jewellery soon after. Almost Perfect, Rose’s jewellery company was founded in 2006. Almost Perfect jewellery is inspired by her sculpture subjects and the Cornish landscape and beaches.

Rose and her family live in a cottage overlooking the sea in Mousehole, near Lands End. Seaside life is interrupted by occasional voyages of exploration and adventure to find new inspiration. In 2006 Rose rode a motorbike across Russia, from Vladivostok to St Petersburg, to raise money for charity and in 2008 the family spent 5 weeks in Tonga. This summer they went trekking in the mountains of Southern Kazakhstan , stayed with Kazakh nomads in yurts and camped by Lake Alakol, where they watched eagles hovering over the Dzungarian Gate to China.

Photos by Rebecca Peters