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Monogramania is the work of 40 year old Charlotte Rosslyn, who is married with three children and lives in Maidstone Kent. Her training in Art began at Canterbury College of Art where she followed a one year Art Foundation Course. She went onto Goldsmiths' College, London where she took her degree in Fine Art Textiles. After taking a year out, she decided to go into teaching and studied for a Post Graduate Certificate of Education in Art and Design. Her teaching career started in Tower Hamlets in East London, where she taught for three years. The make up of the student intake, approximated in 70% of pupils coming from Bangladesh, 20% form Somalia and the remaining 10% from the UK. This cultural diversity resulted in exciting, expressive and highly decorative work produced by students in the field of Art and Textiles. Tower Hamlets provided her with a teaching focus that was concerned with stimulating and motivating pupils in an aesthetic environment. She was able to transfer this experience when working in other schools. Twelve years ago she moved to Kent and carried on teaching Art at Secondary Level, and continued to draw on her collection of rich and multicultural resources to inspire her students. Over the last seven years her teaching was focussed towards working with children with severe emotional and behavioural difficulties. Teaching Art and Textiles to pupils with additional educational needs has been immensely satisfying for her, by having an opportunity to provide therapeutic activity as well as enabling students to achieve academic success in the form of GCSEs. After 14 years teaching experience, she is now taking time out to pursue her own creative ideas. Her current work is inspired
by Turkish and Islamic Art, Lettering, Art and Illuminated Manuscripts,
that reflects her fascination with kaleidoscopes, mandalas and manuscripts. |
