Rosemary Goodenough Norfolk, United Kingdom

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Rosemary Goodenough is a Contemporary Impressionist Sculptor and Painter. She sculpts in clay which is then Cast using the Lost Wax process in Bronze or Aluminium. She paints with oils using knives, cloths and her hands on board or panel. She also draws with Charcoal after having created various surfaces to make full use of the remarkable flexibility of the medium.

I have a particular interest in Medieval Women hence my series of sculptures celebrating the highly educated and extremely powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine and my sculpture celebrating Margery Kempe, Christian Mystic, intrepid Pilgrim and Author of the first Autobiography in the English Language which was Commissioned by the Minster in King's Lynn and relevant Ecclesiastical authorities for permanent display inside King's Lynn Minster . I also wanted to explore my feelings about being a woman in the 21st Century the resulting piece being my sculpture ‘Elemental Woman’.

My work is collected internationally and I'm the first female artist to have a sculpture (Artist’s Proof #1) of ‘A Woman in Motion’ on permanent display inside Lambeth Palace (on which building first started in 1190) celebrating Margery Kempe 1373-1439 as part of the Lambeth Palace Permanent Art Collection in London. #1 in the Limited Edition of 12 is on permanent display in the Minster in King’s Lynn, Norfolk.

Artist’s Proof #1 of the entire Series of 5 Sculptures celebrating Eleanor of Aquitaine was bought by Professor Janina Ramirez, FRSA FRHistS. Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln, Research Fellow in History of Art, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford and BBC Historian and Presenter and Author.

I have paintings in Private Collections in for example, Boston, Cape Town, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow, London, New York, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxford, Paris and Tennessee.

I'm currently researching the life of another Medieval woman, Lady Murasaki Shikibu the Japanese writer of the Tale of Genji (generally acknowledged as being the first novel in the world) with a view to making a sculpture to celebrate her.

I am self-taught and work from my Studio near King's Lynn (where Margery Kempe was born in 1373) in Norfolk and am married to astrophysics researcher and photographer Michael Waller-Bridge FRAS.