Rosa Mascarell. Narval-Collections

      Rosa Mascarell Dauder was born in Gandia (Spain). She is Licenciada en Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación at the Universidad de Valencia. She is also a Master en Estética y Teoría del Arte of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
       She has lived in several European cities for long periods and has had varied jobs, meeting many people, getting to know them, their stories and experiences. For example she worked with the writer and philosopher María Zambrano, she learned ancient gilding techniques in Netherland and worked in a multicultural environement in a telecomunications company. She has also participated in symposiums and has written in specialized magazines and books about philosophy. Now she is working as an art teacher in a British school in Valencia.
       The painting has been her constant throughout these years, carrying out some one-person shows in Germany and Spain, with a permanent exhibition in England.

Member of Fundación María Zambrano
Member of Trevisan International Art Ercole D' Este Award 2009

"Rosa’s work is clearly inspired by the Arabic artistic cultural heritage so prevalent in her Mediterranean region of Spain. Her graceful “arabesques” draw on Arabic geometrical design and the connection between Arab decorative motifs and divinity, but her techniques (especially the tempera and gilding) also recall Christian Medieval art. Her labor-intensive methods have much in common with medieval craftsmanship. Her styles and careful workmanship fuse the best of Spain’s national artistic traditions with her own personal talent and eye. Her intellectual background—a graduate degree in Aesthetics and Art Theory—lurks in the background of her painting but does not overwhelm the directness of her visual communication. The immediacy of her painting speaks to the human desire for transcendence. Rooted in the most basic artistic elements—color and form—Rosa Mascarell’s painting is art in its purest form. It is visual poetry that evokes the eternal mysteries of life—our relationship to the divine, the workings of the mind, and our sensing body in space." Roberta Johnson