Rosa Ines Vera

About the Artist

Peruvian-born, Rosa Vera grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and in Latin America.  She studied and worked in international finance and economics for years before turning to painting.  She currently lives between Bethesda, Maryland and Lima, Peru.  Rosa has exhibited and won prizes in national shows including the National Arts Club, the National Watercolor Society, International Society for Experimental Artists (ISEA), Watercolor USA, and The Art League of Alexandria. She is a member of Touchstone Gallery. She has had a number of solo shows both in the U.S. and in Latin America. Her recent solo show, For Land and Water, with climate change as a theme, was in December 2021 at Touchstone Gallery.

Artist's Statement

My most recent work has focused on landscapes depicting abstractly the beauty of nature. Most of my inspiration is local in the rivers and marshes around Washington, D.C., and Maryland, in addition to the ocean and salt marshes nearby.  These beautiful places remind me that virtually everything we cherish -- natural and man-made -- is in danger due to climate change. As Rachel Carson has been reminding us since 1962 in her groundbreaking book Silent Spring, the threat is great and time is perilously short.  This is the object of my work, that we see and recognize and preserve that splendor.