Rosana de Montfort is a native of Ostrava Czech Republic, who has been creating since early childhood under the influence of mentors, role models and teachers such as Karel Žaluda, Věra Špánová- Boudníková, Jiří Stejskal, David John Lloyd, Jaroslav Domiter, Giovanni Petretta and Ladislav Maria Wagner.
Her main themes of depiction are issues of civilizational continuity, technological development, emotional maturity and the relationship to values that we inherit and newly construct. Her work can be characterized as imaginative realism - a distinctive painting language that connects the real with the mythical, the physical with the inner, and imagination with analytical observation of today's world. The media she uses for her paintings are mostly canvas, acrylic, oil paints, synthetics, sand and plaster, varnishes and pencils. In plastic and sculpture, she prefers materials such as expanded foam, acrylic, glass, cement, polyurethane, aluminum and wood.
From the age of 5 she attended the studio of Akad. mal. Karel Žaluda, where she continued as a pupil of the Primary School and a student of the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Ostrava. She also attended the studio of figure drawing by Jaroslav Domiter and the studio of Ladislav Maria Wagner in Ostrava. She commuted with her parents to private lessons in portrait painting with Jiří Stejskal in Olomouc. In 1991 she participated in external teaching and auxiliary work with a restoration team in Venice under the leadership of Giovanni Petretta. In 1994 she worked in Munich as a member of a team of restorers focusing on the painting of Alexander Koester.
In 1995 she opened the art hub and music club Matador in Kunstpark Ost in Munich, where she also created exhibition spaces. Between 1999 and 2003 she lived in Prague, where she joined a group of street art artists as one of the first girls in the Czech Republic. Here she participated in the production of graffiti jams in Těšnov, Orionka, Barrandov bridges and others. She led her life in the hip-hop scene not only through graffiti, but also through music production. She founded a recording studio in which she recorded several rap albums.
The move to the London scene in 2004 was followed by an offer to collaborate with JPM recordings. It was in Great Britain that she was able to reach the widest audience and at the same time develop her style with several new modern techniques and media. In addition to classical painting, she also created sculptures, street art and large-scale murals. Exhibitions and commissions for artistic and musical productions for British television channels such as Channel U, BBC Channel 4 and Lion TV followed. In 2009, she founded her company De Montfort Ltd. in London, which she still owns today.
Since 2020, she has been living more stably in the Novyjicin region on an old farm, where she enjoys painting and artistic activities in a reconstructed cowshed. She organizes art courses, teaches painting at a grammar school and organizes exhibition projects with Czech and foreign artists. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Union of Fine Artists of Olomouc, where she works in projects at the Olomouc City Gallery not only as an exhibitor but also as an organizer.
She runs the Moritz Gallery at Bílovec Chateau, and since 2019 has also been organizing exhibitions and discussions with artists at the small MonAmi Gallery. In 2025, after a 10-month renovation, she and her husband Russell will open the De Montfort Gallery in Nový JIčín and the Pavilon community center in Bílovec. Since 2022, she has been living in Malá Strana, where she studies Baroque art, attends training and consulting in technology and conservation.
Thanks to her participation in non-profit projects, she has received several awards, including recognition from the White House and the San Francisco City Council, as well as several Citizen of the Year awards and recognition for supporting and developing regional culture. Her dream is to leave behind values and experiences that are worth remembering.
Exhibitions and projects in recent years
03.10.-30.11.2018 Art center Martello Tower, group exhibition, Essex, United KIngdom
03.08.-05.08. 2018 Bílovec Chateau, solo exhibition and lecture at PARCON 2018
21.02.-25.03. 2019 Mlejn Museum and Gallery, "Revelation" solo exhibition, curated by Eda Riedl, Ostrava
27.04.- 31.08. 2019 Bílovec Chateau, solo exhibition for the 10th anniversary,
01.06.- Vinárna pod Pálavou, Dolní Náměstí, Olomouc, permanent solo exhibition
01.09.-31.10. 2019 Chagall Gallery, solo exhibition, curator Alena Stodolová
16.10.2019 Yacht Club, Frinton-on-Sea, UK, group sales exhibition
21.09.2019 Essex County ART REVIEW, UK, benefit group exhibition “Hello Harwich”
07.12.2019 Ceremonial unveiling of the reproduction of the original painting Bl. Česlava Odrowas, Bílovec Castle
01.08.2019-01.07.2020 Petr Brandl Gallery, Prague 1, author's selection
12.06.-03.09.2021 ROMY&ROSE, exhibition with Romana Štryncl, Bílovec Castle, curator R.deMontfort
18.07.-30.10.2021 Mezisvěty, Rosana and Russell de Montfort, Paintings, Kunín Castle
04.09.-8.11.2021 Educational program for children at the Nicolaus Copernicus Gymnasium in Bílovec
11.11.-31.05.2022 ARTVÁRIUM project, Curator PhDr. Renáta Mužíková, PhD. , Passage of Czech Design Prague
20.02.-20.03.2022 "IN THE CITY CLUB" solo exhibition, MonAmi Gallery, Bílovec
29.03.-5.04.2022 Educational program for teenagers at the Gymnázium Mikoláš Kopernika in Bílovec
21.05.-24. 6. 2022 Lysice Castle - 2nd year of the ROMY&ROSE project exhibition with Romana Štryncl
10.5.-11. 7. 2023 Gallery for oncology patients and their supporting artists, solo exhibition "LOOK FORWARD", Prague
01.08.-30.09. 2022 House of Culture Kroměříž, solo exhibition "DULCE DYSTOPIA", curator Robert Rohál
11.08.- 9.9.2022 Art Mozaika Gallery, group exhibition "ART SALON" Curator Michal Fryč, Prague
17.9. – 31.10. 2022 Bílovec Chateau, ArtGalerie Moritz, group exhibition entitled “MEETING IN TIME”, Jaroslav Jerry Svoboda, Michal Janovský, Radomír Bárta, Rosana de Montfort
3.9. – 31.11. 2022 FELIDAE Gallery, Kafé Schrödinger Brno, “TIME SHIFT”, solo exhibition, curated by Romy Štryncl
24.11.-28.1. 2023 Hřivnáč Gallery, Philosophical and humanistic conceptual project by Libor Hřivnáč “ON ONE SHIP. ON ONE SHORE.”, group exhibition, Opava
16.03. - 22.04. 23 Hřivnáč Gallery, “TIMELINE”, solo exhibition, curated by L. Hřivnáč, Opava
5.5. – 30.6.2023 Gallery for oncology patients, “LOOK FORWARD”, solo exhibition, curated by Irena Kraftová, Prague
1.8.-31.8. 2023 Archbishop's Palace “ROMY&ROSE” 3rd year of the benefit project/exhibition with Romana Štryncl, Kroměříž
2.10.- 5.12. 2023 MonAmi Gallery, Philosophical and humanistic conceptual project by Libor Hřivnáč “ON ONE SHIP. ON ONE SHORE.”, group exhibition, Bílovec
14.9.-19.11. 2023 Silesian Ostrava Gallery “HALFTIME”, solo exhibition of paintings and 3D, Ostrava
14.12.- 31.12.2023 ZaZa Gallery, “ON ONE SHIP. ON ONE SHORE.”, group. exhibition, curated by Libor Hřivnáč, Ostrava
6.3.-23.3. 2024 Olomouc City Gallery "FIVE SENTENCES" Art project with artists Jaroslav Jerry Svoboda, Ingrid Kitzbergerová, Vincent Chignier and Radomít Bárta, Olomouc
May 2024 Lysice Chateau - 4th year of the ROMY&ROSE project exhibition with Romana Štryncl
1.5.-31.5. MonAmi Gallery, "3R" Radomír Bárta, Russell de Montfort, Rosana de Montfort
22.6.-4.8. 2024 TUFEST - art festival in the Šternberk Monastery, multi-genre exhibition
4.9.- 27.9. 2024 Brno Cloister, art project "NINE SENTENCES" curator Kateřina Dubovcová
1.12.-7.2. 2025 KD Kroměříž, "THREE SENTENCES" Bárta, Chignier, de Montfort, curator Robert Rohál, Kroměříž
3.5./31.10.2025 Chateau Bilovec "DEPOSITORY XXL" solo exposition of large scale paintings
“Dive Diva”
“Shower Time”
“CML”
“ADAM”
