Serena Rowe
Serena Rowe was born in Edinburgh in 1977. She spent two years studying classical techniques at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy from 2001 and also completed The Drawing Year at London’s Royal Drawing School.
In 2004, Serena was the recipient of the RGI Graduate Award from the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, which resulted in her first solo exhibition at the city’s RGI Kelly Gallery. Now based in South London, her work is represented both in the collection of HRH The Prince of Wales and the Thames & Hudson book Ways of Drawing.
How do sketchbooks factor into your creative practice?
When I draw in a sketchbook, it’s never what ends up in a painting. My sketchbooks are full of a lot of people and a lot of feelings, bits from books – I read a lot – and maybe ideas or things that I want to remember. I draw like a musician practises his scales: it’s something you absolutely have to keep doing or you
