Rosy Burke loves painting and drawing and can frequently be found on the beach portraying her favourite cliffs and seascapes. Sheep and farm animals are another favourite.

Her fantasy irridescent underwater scenes are box framed so that her collages can be 3D as though the seaweeds might swish in the blue waters.

With her abstracts she says “I am never happier than when pushing and pulling paint about and finding unusual colours and shapes and textures in the landscape and helping them shine out”.

In the 2021 lockdown she wrote and self-published her first photo book ‘Compton - from the skies to the seas - a love letter to the landscape’. SOLD OUT.

Now retired, she worked as a freelance designer and photographer for 40 years.

She won the BBC Countryfile Photo Competition Judges Prize in 2005 and then for nine years was a Long Listing Judge of it.