Rosso Emerald Crimson is an award-winning portrait artist who brings intimacy and character to her colorful paintings, brilliantly merging realism with abstract artistry. Italian born, Rosso has been living in London/UK since early 2000. She gained a MA in Human Rights and International Relations and worked in advertising before discovering her true call for painting, in her 30s. She retrained then, attending the London Atelier of Representational Art (LARA) part-time and taking private tuition from artists whose work deeply inspired her. Featured in many art magazines including cover features, Rosso’s work will be featured in the August/September 2024 International Artist Magazine. Rosso has won several art prizes since the beginning of her artistic career, including the 2016 “Emerald Winter Pride Award”, organized by Pride UK; the first prize for the Holly Bush “Emerging Woman Painter Prize” (now Women In Art / WIA Prize), leading to Rosso’s first solo exhibition at CASSart headquarters gallery in London. She won the first prize for the portrait/figurative category at the “Jackson Open Painting Prize” in 2019. More recently she’s been selected for ModPortrait 2023, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI), ING Discerning Eye and the Society of Women Artists SWA, and exhibited at MEAM (Museum Modern Art) in Barcelona, and at the Mall Galleries in London. Her work has been in the cover of “The Artist Magazine” (UK) and Arena Magazine (Australia), and featured in Colossal, International Artist Magazine, Create Mag, Evolved Mag, MyModernMet, Artists & Illustrator, Vogue India and will be featured in the August/September 2024 International Artist Magazine. She was selected to participate in “Sky Portrait Artist Of The Year” in 2019 and 2021. In 2021, she was finalist in the renown “Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize”, which opened doors to collaborations and exhibitions internationally with galleries in US (Sugarlift, RLS, Principle Gallery), Canada (James Baerd Gallery), Norway (Romfjord Gallery), Germany (Stoerpunkt). More recently she’s been selected for ModPortrait 2023, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters