Rosie Harbottle is an artist based in the Teign Valley on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon. Drawing on close observation of the natural world, her paintings explore cycles of growth, renewal and transformation through flowers, plants and place.
Memories of a childhood spent exploring wild places continue to inform her practice, alongside an enduring fascination with the relationship between people and nature. She is particularly interested in the traces left behind by living systems; what disappears, what returns, and the layered histories embedded within a landscape. Through colour, pattern and intuitive mark-making, her paintings seek to capture not only the appearance of a plant or place, but its character, memory and emotional resonance.
Influenced by folk art traditions, mythology, music and storytelling, her work moves between observation and imagination. Before becoming a full-time artist, Harbottle worked in illustration and textile design, experiences that continue to inform her use of pattern, colour and composition. Her paintings invite a slower way of looking, celebrating the beauty, complexity and interconnectedness of the natural world.
Top: Rosie in the studio. Taken by Joe Williams
Above: Close up of ‘Confetti’. 2026
Exhibitions
Scroll NYC, Grand Show - Feb/March 2026
Eastwood Fine Art, Christmas show, Hampshire - Nov/Dec 2025
Milieu Studios, St Ives, Cornwall - Nov/ Dec 2025
Scroll NYC, ‘The Tomatoes are Ripe!’ - Sept/ Oct 2025 (solo)
Eastwood Fine Art, 3 Artists - June 2025
Eastwood Fine Art, Spring Show - April 2025
Eastwood Fine Art Christmas Show, Hampshire - Nov/Dec 2024
Milieu Studios, St Ives, Cornwall - Oct 2024
Unpolished, Stow-on-the-Wold - July 2024
Charleston House, Firle - Summer 2024
Eastwood Fine Art Spring Show, Hampshire - April 2024
Garden Museum X TOAST, London (Solo) - Jan/Feb 2024
Style Your Spaces, Edinburgh - 2023
Unpolished, Stow-on-the-Wold, 2023
Eastwood Fine Art Autumn Show, Hampshire - 2023
Style Your Spaces, Edinburgh - 2023
Act One Art online exhibition - 2023
Act One Art at 99 projects, London - 2022
Style Your Spaces, Edinburgh - 2022
Act One Art, Noho Showrooms, London 2022
Style Your Spaces, Edinburgh - 2022
Liberty London - 2021
Selected Commissions and Collaborations
Anthropologie, Liberty London, Liz Linkleter, Monica Vinader, Print Club London, Soho House, The Conran Shop, TOAST.
Selected Press
Blumenhaus Magazine, Collagerie, Financial Times, Frederic Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, Homes & Antiques, Vogue, 91 Magazine.
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Pressed flowers in Rosie’s studio. Taken by Marco Kesseler for TOAST.