William Balthazar Rose

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 Metaphysical

b.1961, William Balthazar Rose








































William Balthazar Rose is an English painter who lives in Sansepolcro, Tuscany and Bath, England. He works in a number of genres of which he is best known for his cooks depicted in “The Cook's Theatre” a group of paintings dedicated to the cook and deriving in concept from ideas concerning the Theatre of the Absurd. Rose has exhibited widely in the United States, England and Continental Europe alongside such artists as Howard Hodgkin, Wolf Kahn, Wayne Thiebaud, Luca Pignatelli, Adriano Alunni and Massimo Campigli. His work has been influenced by Cezanne, Balthus, Morandi and Goya in painting, and Fellini, Pasolini and Peter Greenaway in film.

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