In her work, Rose explores the natural world and our often fragile relationship with it. She works in a variety of media and most often in egg tempera using a technique which has remained unchanged since the Renaissance, giving her paintings a luminous quality combined with the investigative qualities of drawing.

Rose trained at Falmouth Art School, the University of Nottingham (BA History of Art) and City & Guilds of London Art School (MA Fine Art). She returned to painting full time in 2023 after teaching Art and History of Art at Shrewsbury (Head of Art) and Wellington College (Head of History of Art). She is married to Desmond Shawe-Taylor, formerly Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery and Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures. They have three children.