About Rosa Vera

Rosa Inés Vera is an award-winning artist whose paintings are in private collections here and overseas, as well as in the permanent collection of the National Institutes of Health. She paints using acrylic, watercolor, collage and oil as medium, and landscapes, figures, and still-lifes as subjects. Her work has appeared in national magazines such as the Watercolor Magic Magazine, July 2007 and in the article, “2008 Best in Show,” Watercolor Artist Magazine, February 2009. She was a finalist in the 2008 The Artists Magazine 25th Annual Art Competition.

She has taken courses at the Corcoran School of Art and Design, The Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, and the Art League of Alexandria, in the Washington D.C. area, in addition to a number of workshops. She began painting in watercolor and oils but now also uses collage and acrylic, as well, to provide more flexibility and add to the texture and design of the work. Often, as a piece progresses, the idea changes and the painting evolves into an entity of its own. The final piece often bears little resemblance to the original idea.

In some of her current work, she explores colors, symbols, figures, and proverbs to express her search for family roots and cultural values. Although the means of expressing these subjects vary from painting to painting and over time, this common thread binds each work together.