About

My name’s Rose and I’m a pretty much self-taught artist from Norfolk, UK. I say pretty much self-taught but full disclosure - I did get an A for AS level art many, MANY moons ago. I don’t even know if AS levels are still a thing now though! Even further back from then, when I was about 5 or 6 I also won a WHSmith voucher for a piece of artwork regarding road safety, so technically I am an award winning artist! Lol.

I work primarily with watercolours and Posca pens to create illustrative artwork with a cosy, fantasy theme. My work is inspired by the places I’ve been, children’s book illustration and a good bit of folklore to boot. I would say that about 80% of my work is set in the fictional world of the Hinterlands, where as the other 20% tends to be art nouveau inspired blow-outs!

I should maybe also mention a bit about the name ‘be about space’, as very little of my work tends to actually be about space to be fair! Nor is my name Bea Bout, nor would this be my space if I was Bea Bout. Instead, the name comes from something my daughter used to say to our cat Smudge when she was little - she would laugh and tell him to be about space. None of us have a clue what any of it was actually about.

Finally, I would like to say that I do not use AI for any part of my artistic process or in my writing. Don’t get me started, honestly…

Thank you for visiting my page!