Photo credit: Hannah Minzloff
Violet Rosengarten began her artistic career as a textile artist, apprenticing with the indigenous people in Mexico and Guatemala. Her scarves and shawls were sold at exclusive boutiques on Madison Avenue and at the department store, Bonwit Teller in New York.
Her tapestries explored colour, texture and abstraction. Upon graduating with a BFA in 1989 from Concordia University in Montreal, she became a painter. After completing her B Ed at McGill as an art specialist, Violet taught art for twenty years in the public school system, first in Toronto and then in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Violet creates mixed media abstract paintings. She also enjoys plein air painting. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Quebec, Ontario and now in Nova Scotia. “Winter Gardens: Two
Views, Violet Rosengarten & Roxanne Smith” was her first significant exhibition in Nova Scotia in 2014.
Violet was featured as the painter in “Rosa’s Time” which played at the Sundance Film Festival. She also produced “Drowning in Colour: The Art of Wayne Boucher which was directed by her filmmaker husband, Alan Collins in 2012.
Her tapestries explored colour, texture and abstraction. Upon graduating with a BFA in 1989 from Concordia University in Montreal, she became a painter. After completing her B Ed at McGill as an art specialist, Violet taught art for twenty years in the public school system, first in Toronto and then in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Violet creates mixed media abstract paintings. She also enjoys plein air painting. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Quebec, Ontario and now in Nova Scotia. “Winter Gardens: Two
Views, Violet Rosengarten & Roxanne Smith” was her first significant exhibition in Nova Scotia in 2014.
Violet was featured as the painter in “Rosa’s Time” which played at the Sundance Film Festival. She also produced “Drowning in Colour: The Art of Wayne Boucher which was directed by her filmmaker husband, Alan Collins in 2012.
