June 3, 2013
Rosemarie Matthews-Frederick is the featured artist for June at the Nimue Gallery in Kingaroy.
Rosemarie, who is familiar to Kingaroy residents as the owner of “Framed With Style”, has been doing paper tole for 14 years.
She took up the artwork after a ski-ing accident
Paper tole is three-dimensional decoupage, based on a classic French artform.
The artist cuts out sections of identical prints and then layers them to create a three-dimensional picture.
Rosemarie started with simple kits but the members of a craft group in the town where she was living at the time were so impressed with the result they asked her teach them.
“I said ‘no way’ as I was just learning myself, but I soon found myself teaching them,” Rosemarie said.
“I also needed to frame my work as there was no local framer. As a result, I am now a self-taught paper tole artist and framer.”
Rosemarie moved to Kingaroy in 2007 and bought “Framed With Style”.
She’s been kept busy with the shop but still finds time for paper tole, and still teaches the craft.
“I hold workshops at my home in Kingaroy, at least once a month,” she said.
Nimue Gallery owner Cherry Carroll said this was the first paper tole exhibition by a solo artist that she had held.
It consists of 23 artworks ranging from small, delicate pieces to large artworks.
This is the third exhibition that Rosemarie has had so far this year. She has shown at Friends of Cultcha in Blackbutt and Wondai Gallery. She also had works at Nanart.
Rosemarie has two more local exhibitions planned for this year, at the Kingaroy Art Gallery and Winds of Change Gallery in Nanango.
Nimue Gallery is located next door to the Carrollee Hotel in King Street, Kingaroy.
