Bio/Resume

Rose Collins is a wildlife artist in Tucson, AZ. As wildlife artist Rose says “my soul is filled with joy when I awaken in the morning to the anticipation and excitement I experience when I begin painting.”  Since moving to Tucson in 1998 from New York, her passion, dedication, and love of all that is Southwest are blazingly evident in the work she creates. 

From a professional background in psychotherapy, Rose has a deep understanding of human interactions, adding a palpable level of conscious reality and complete honesty to her wildlife fine art. 

Self-taught as an artist, she painstakingly studies other artists, is a voracious reader and researcher, frequents galleries as a means of educating herself and uses her vast knowledge and mastery of photography to incorporate composition and perspective into her designs.  

She was invited to jury into the prestigious Mountain Oyster Art Show in Tucson in 2011-2016. Presently her work is exhibited in Jane Hamilton Art in Tucson, Arizona. To her delight Rose was invited to show at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City for their Small Works and Great Wonders art show in November of 2019. In 2017 she was invited to show in the prestigious CowGirl Up show, featuring woman artists of the West.  July 6 - August 30, 2018, she was invited to exhibit her work at SouthWind Gallery in Topeka, Kansas with 25  female western artists in "Daughters of the Prairie. For more information on Wildlife / Southwest Artist Rose Collins, you can contact her at: rcollinsartist@gmail.com (520) 850-8446