Kathleen Speranza, Small Yellow Rose

Kathleen Speranza has explored many subjects in her 40 years of painting and teaching, but roses are her current obsession. During her distinguished academic career, she taught painting and drawing for all college levels, most recently at the Rhode Island School of Design. Kathleen now teaches online and leads painting workshops in the United States and abroad.

Her paintings explore the visual language of space, light, color, and form as it relates to specific subjects from nature. The most recent paintings investigate the poetic potential of botanical life. Her works relating to garden roses, with their extreme subtlety of color and structure, are perhaps her best-known images.

Her works appear in public and private collections in the U.S. and the U.K. Speranza holds a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from Yale. Her work can be seen on Facebook and Instagram. She lives and works at Rush Hollow Art Studio in southwestern Vermont, with her husband/videographer, Parker Heath.