Rosemary Kralik

Rosemary specializes in portraiture and figurative studies of people and animals in paintings using oils and acrylic as well as in drawings using graphite and ink and other media. She also creates sculptures in clay, bronze, stainless steel, wood or glass. She is a photographer, a writer, an editor, a graphic designer, a scientific illustrator and does architectural drafting. Rosemary is an organic farmer with a one hundred animal menagerie on her 700 acre farm. Rosemary utilizes her painting talents to express her love of farming and animals, she documents particular animal breeds, but also a disappearing culture - the older generation of family farm. Kralik has set her objectives on documenting the vanishing family farm, the farmers, the rare breeds & the practices. She also records local, historical culture.

An example is her drawings of 20 local churches which have been reproduced in cards, pamphlets and posters that have drawn visitors to these historical sites over several years of the "Scarlet Maple Tours" through Lanark County. Kralik helped turn the great hall in the MERA schoolhouse into an exhibition hall by procuring the hardware & installing hanging rails for paintings. She was one of the three founders of MERALEA the MERA League of Exhibiting Artists. She teaches drawing, painting & portraiture in her studio. Rosemary's Egyptian upbringing and years of art education in Europe give her a worldly experience which perhaps has led to her strong connection to her local community and an admiration for its people and the legacy they leave us. Her sense of history moved her to singlehandedly restore her Lanark property to a functioning mixed farm, while painting as many of the remaining farmers under her project called "The Fences of Lanark Highlands".