Rosemary Miles Blair

Rosemary Miles Blair’s work focuses on landscape, especially the beautiful natural features of Nova Scotia and Central New Jersey. The unique color and light of this region, as well as Nova Scotia seascapes, lends itself to high key media, and colour is a major component of these interpretations of observed reality. All work is done from observation in the field, and the integrity of the subjects make for illuminating renditions, opening new understanding of the subjects to the viewer.

Rosemary Blair graduated from the College of New Rochelle and Columbia University Teacher’s College. She was a student of Ernest Thorne Thompson and Dong Kingman, among others, and later was greatly influenced by Wolf Khan.

Her solo show at Johnson and Johnson Corporate Headquarters in New Brunswick was part of their New Jersey Artists series. She also exhibited at the Courthouse Show and B2G Gallery in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She is represented by Lyghtsome Gallery in Antigonish. She continues to paint and exhibit in various venues and juried shows, including a show at the Garden State Watercolour Society in April and May 2011.

Her love of the land finds expression in her work in the preservation of open space through the D&R Greenway Land Trust of which she is a founder and trustee. She was the first President and the Chairman of the Board of Friends of Princeton Open Space. The Greenway Artists have come together to paint what is rapidly becoming the “vanishing landscape” as development fills the countryside with sprawl.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, she has lived in Princeton for many years, and has summered in Nova Scotia for almost as many. She taught art at the Princeton Regional Schools for thirty years, seventeen of which were at the Princeton High School. She served on the College Board Studio Art and Art History Evaluation Committee for five years, and was consultant to schools in training teachers to present the Advanced Placement Exams. She also served as consultant to the Teacher Education Program at Princeton University. She was elected President of Art Educators of New Jersey, and chaired their annual conference.[Gallery not found]