Lydia Rose

Lydia Rose is an early career artist living and working in Leeds. She has recently completed an MA in Illustration.

She works in a range of traditional media, including inks, graphite, and traditional printing processes, gathering references and inspiration from extensive walking in the landscape. Her current work examines the uncanny in folklore, and the cultural heritage of place- specific stories, especially those local to her practice in Yorkshire. She likes to investigate topics in relation to the changing climate, and asks how folkloric narratives could recreate a more harmonious relationship between ourselves and the natural world.

Lydia Rose’s work on display includes a series of 3 monoprints using blue ink on paper, each print measuring 65x25cm. These pieces explore the liminality and otherworldly nature of bogs and wetlands, which have been used as meeting places, burial sites, and sites of ritual for millenia. Two of the prints are inspired by 'bog bodies' found in wetlands across the UK, and the third illustrates the Twelve Apostles stone circle on our local wetland of Ilkley Moor.

© Lydia Rose