Weronika Anna Rosa

Weronika Anna Rosa is a visual botanical artist, researcher and art historian, based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Her works are strongly influenced by the botanical education she received from her grandparents. Deeply appreciative of artistic heritage, noble materials, and traditions of savoir-faire, Rosa combines these influences with a contemporary sensibility.

Her paintings explores the ways in which memory, sensuality, and time intertwine. Flowers are central to her practice - appearing not only as subjects but as vessels of meaning, emotion, and metaphor. She captures the ephemeral matter of nature, looking into its strength and fragility, imperfections and beauty.

In her latest projects, the artist focuses on relationships between plants and humans, current socio-environmental factors and plants threatened with extinction.

Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions across Europe, alongside collaborations with institutions, such as Victoria and Albert Museum, Fundação Oriente, National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon, Embassy of Poland in Portugal, among others.

Paintings

Rosa works with various media to create diverse textures, scales, and volumes. Passionate about colour, she carefully prepares bold yet harmonious pigment combinations and employs meticulous brushstrokes and sinuous, dancing lines that define her distinctive style.

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Drawings

Drawing is a way to understand and record careful observations of plants, capture their movements, and note their palette. Rosa draws on the tradition of botanical art, yet through her illustrations she interprets nature with audacity.

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They wrote:

"Observing the flowers, their stems and curves in detail is still the first step of her artistic process. Each one of her panel is dedicated to one flower as she turns it into a portrait. What really impressed me is the thoroughness with which she delicately crafts each and every one of her pieces. Thoroughness, details, time: all things we tend to overlook in more ways than one."

Lauriane Gepner, Bom Dia
"At the core of Rosa’s project lies an exploration of memory as both a biological and cultural archive. Her large-scale paintings on organic textiles, depicting plant silhouettes magnified beyond human proportions, evoke the format of traditional herbaria while subverting their original function (...) Rosa radicalises this logic: her monumental renderings transform documentary function into existential lament, foregrounding the tension between representation and disappearance."

The Flora Journal
"In her Lisbon's studio, in the attic, flowers bloom all year round (...) Weronika's flowers subtly refer to the art of late 19th and early 20th centuries. The artist often thinks back to the Stanisław Wyspiański's works or the French Nabis' paintings, especially these by Pierre Bonard and Maurice Denis."

Ela Stasiak, ELLE Decoration Poland

Hand-painted Designs

Especially drawn to textiles and the tactile experiences they offer, Rosa creates unique fabric designs inspired by her hand-painted projects. Her work highlights textile art at its finest, with particular attention to detail and the careful craftsmanship that makes each piece distinctive.

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Collaborations + Objects

Unique objects and bespoke artworks, created for brands or in collaboration with interior designers and architects, form an essential part of Rosa’s artistic practice. These custom design projects are grounded in bilateral dialogue to respond thoughtfully to each client’s needs

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Exhibitions & events:

Traces of Memories - National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC)

July 3rd - August 4th, 2025, Lisbon (Portugal)

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Clair Obscur - Flores Studio (Lisbon Design Week)

May 28th-31st, Lisbon (Portugal)

Flores Textile Studio x Lisbon Design Week
Weronika Anna Rosa's exhibition at the occasion of the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union

April - May 2025, Lisbon (Portugal)
Official Residence of the Polish Ambassador to Portugal
21. Warsaw Art Fair - Cliché Gallery

November 2024, Warsaw (Poland)

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