Rosemary Goodenough, sculptor and painter works in the contemporary impressionist tradition, painting with knives, cloths and her hands on panel or board as canvas is too springy to accommodate her technique.  Her work is collected internationally and held in private collections in Geneva, New York, Tennessee, Boston, Cape Town, Paris, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London, Norfolk and Northamptonshire among other places.  She lives in Norfolk with her husband Michael Waller-Bridge.

In 2022 Rosemary Goodenough received a Public Sculpture Commission from the Chairman of The Margery Kempe Committee of King’s Lynn Minster to celebrate the 650th anniversary of the birth of Margery Kempe, a religious mystic, intrepid pilgrim and author of the first autobiography in the English language.  The commission was approved the the Diocesan Advisory Commission (Diocese of Norwich), and the various bodies necessary for a permanent sculpture to be sited in a Grade 1 Listed building.

The sculpture of Margery Kempe was unveiled on 4th February 2023 by General The Lord Dannatt and blessed by The Right Reverend Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich.

She created a series of Sculptures to honour Eleanor of Acquitane, a fascinating and brilliantly clever woman. Eleanor was married to the King of France, the King of England and was mother of two English Kings, Richard The Lionheart and King John but, very unusually for a woman of her era c1124 – 1204 she was always known by her own name as Duchess of Acquitaine and commanded great respect wherever she went.  Equally unusually at the Plantaganet necropolis in Fontevraud Abbey, she is depicted reading a book, again very unusual for a woman of her time as most women were illiterate and I wanted to honour her in sculpture”.

When drawing with charcoal, she creates various surfaces to create different tensions between the charcoal and the surface, the most innovative being her 'Roseotypes' which appear to float the charcoal on a surface which seems to be almost metallic due to its particular preparation.

In 2011 Rosemary was inspired by overhearing someone at one of her exhibitions exclaim “if that painting was a scarf I would wear it”!  This led her to apply her paintings using one of the great silk printers at Lake Como, by means of series of digital colour variations she made of her original paintings, to Silk Twill as a forerunner in the ‘scarf art’ movement, which process sparked her designing and developing what is now a full collection of accessories for both women and, through Rosemary Goodenough Man, for men.  Rosemary Goodenough Ties and Silk/Cashmere Scarves are all woven and made in England.

Early examples of her Collections were taken up by legendary London store Fortnum & Mason and cutting edge Mayfair showcase Wolf & Badger; thus began her creative trajectory into the world of Fashion.  When Rosemary considered the classic Tie and applied her skills to the design of a signature Tie with a separate, subtly contrasting ‘knot’, woven and made in England to her exacting standards, Paul Alger MBE, International Director of the UK Fashion & Textile Association told Rosemary 'that she was the first person to redesign the Tie for 150 years'!

Rosemary Goodenough is the author of the ‘Hooray-Hooray-Horatio the Jolly Hedgehog’ children’s books which are published on Fonetti.

“Every Mark Is A Decision” – Rosemary Goodenough

EXHIBITIONS & COMMISSIONS

2023

Sculpture for Permanent Installation in King’s Lynn Minster ‘A Woman in Motion’ celebrating the 650th anniversary of the birth of Margery Kempe and depicting her as a pilgrim unveiled on 4th February 2023 by General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, President of the Norfolk Churches Trust and blessed by The Right Reverend Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich.

​2022

PUBLIC SCULPTURE COMMISSION:

Commissioned by The Reverend Canon Dr. Mark Dimond, Vicar of St. Margarets and Chair of The Margery Kempe Committee of King’s Lynn Minster to make a Sculpture for permanent installation in the Minster which will be unveiled on Saturday 4th February 2023 at 3pm by General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, President of the Norfolk Churches Trust and blessed by The Right Reverend Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich. My sculpture will celebrate the 650th anniversary of the birth of Margery Kempe, 1373 -1438 who was born in Bishop’s (now King’s) Lynn. She was a Mystic, an intrepid Pilgrim and Author of the first autobiography in the English Language. My sculpture, named ‘A Woman in Motion’, celebrates Margery Kempe as an extremely brave and determined Pilgrim.

EXHIBITION 2022:

Two Ways of Seeing, Gallery East, Suffolk

2016

Rosemary Goodenough Brand shown at the British Embassy Tokyo, Japan.

2015

Invited by Rolls-Royce Motor Cars to join their Ambassador Programme and was profiled in the first edition of their new brand magazine.

2014 - 2019

Rosemary Goodenough Brand at London Fashion Week Spring/Summer and Autumn Winter Collections (twice yearly).

2013

Rosemary Goodenough Brand at the Saatchi Gallery SCOOP International Fashion Show

2012

BT ArtBox for ChildLine – ‘About A Child’ NSPCC HQ

 2011

Wildwood Gallery, Suffolk

The Wicken Vineyard, Suffolk

2010

Art at the Park, Suffolk

Highwayman’s Gallery, Suffolk

2007

Dio Arts Launch - Auckland, New Zealand

2006

Eurostar Concourse London - 'Aphrodite's Battlewagon' an ArtCar for Vauxhall's Exhibit V for the London Motor Show in association with Magic FM and Visit London

Galerie Landertinger Wagner, Salzburg, Austria

The Arts Club, Dover Street

London, Berlin, Milan and Barcelona for Visit London 

2005

Ryder Street Gallery, London

Home House, London

Spectrum Fine Art, London

 2004

Guest Art Editor, Archidom Magazine, Moscow

2003

A & D Gallery London

Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, Florence

2001

Dauntons, London

International Notting Hill Arts Exhibition, London

ING Barings London

2000

La Brocca, London

Cafe Royal, London

The City Gallery London

ING Barings London

Merchant Company Hall, Edinburgh

Millenium Year Resident Artist for the Green Gallery, Stirlingshire, Scotland.

1999

Pollyanna Gallery, Barnsley

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

ING Barings, London

1998

Ozten Zeki Gallery, Walton Street London

Savoy Hotel London

Lux Centre, Hoxton Square London