ArtIST: Barbara Rosin

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Barbara Rosin, an impressionist painter, is a self-described "lifelong artist"; she's been drawing as "long as [she] could hold a pencil." While she works primarily with oil paint, Rosin is equally talented as an illustrator, providing artwork for the covers of cookbooks, poetry journals, and sociological texts. Her professional career, however, is in art therapy. As an art therapist, Rosin has instructed painting lessons for over thirty years, drawing from her studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Tyler School of Art, and the Fleisher Art Memorial.

When she's not busy instructing others to paint, Rosin creates art of her own, creating "memory-inspired dreamy landscape paintings" out of her Chestnut Hill studio. Comprised mostly of nature scenes, the majority of Rosin's artwork reflects her love of the Italian countryside and her insatiable yearning to revisit her favorite scenic Italian vistas. Each visit to Italy leaves Rosin inspired anew, yet she continues to be influenced by past visits as if they occurred yesterday. She says, "Possibly my most enduring inspiration was my first view of Lago Trasimeno in Umbria, Italy seen from a train window fifteen years ago. That 'vision' led to repeated trips by train, car and foot. I've been painting it ever since."