Before completing her Masters in Illustration, Rosie studied Music at Durham University. Her love of classical music has heavily influenced her work and Rosie has worked for a number of leading musical names including The Royal Opera House, Wigmore Hall, Sir Paul McCartney, Opera Holland Park, Naxos Recordings and Classic FM.
After nearly ten years of researching and illustrating, Rosie has built a library of illustrations depicting the characters and narrating the plots of over fifty of the world’s greatest operas and ballets, and the collection grows bigger every day! Rosie is in the process of developing this into her own multimedia brand, with the support of a number of leading licensing agencies and her idea was selected as one of the winners of Brand Licensing Europe’s 2019 License This! so as they say… watch this space!
If you would like to discuss potential brand collaborations or licensee opportunities please do get in touch via the contact page.
Collaborations
Classic FM Hall of Fame
Over the Easter Bank Holiday 2020, Rosie collaborated with Classic FM to highlight their magnificent annual Hall of Fame celebrating the 300 most popular pieces of classical music as voted for by Classic FM listeners, throughout the four day marathon Classic FM uploaded over fifty illustrations to their listeners via social media. These illustrations went on to form a Classic FM Jigsaw which was sold to raise money for their fabulous charity Global’s Make Some Noise.
Naxos UKRosie worked with the lovely NAXOS UK to create a series of FREE Colouring Activities for children.
Opera Holland Park
Rosie has a close friendship with the wonderful Opera Holland Park and has created illustrations for a number of their Inspire educational programmes as well as holding drawing workshops at their annual Open Day – in real life and on zoom!
Sir Paul McCartney
Rosie Brooks Sir Paul Mcartney Telegraph Article
Rosie was asked by Gibson Guitars to create illustrations to wrap a ten foot statue of a Les Paul electric guitar as part of the London Guitar Town exhibition. Her design idea was selected by Sir Paul McCartney and the guitar went on to raise $120,000 for various musical charities. Sir Paul then asked Rosie to illustrate a real Les Paul which he has played on his world tour ever since.
