Rosa Fedele'For me, every painting and every book is a new adventure, started with a thrill of excitement and anticipation.' Australian painter Rosa Fedele, known for her portrait and figurative work, was born in Sydney and studied at the prestigious Julian Ashon Art School. A member of Portrait Artists Australia, Australia's largest industry association for professional portraitists, and a regular contributor to Australian Fine Art and Decorative Painting magazine, her work has been exhibited in NSW Parliament House and Parliament House Canberra, as well as numerous galleries and exhibitions in Australia and worldwide. Rosa fell avidly in love with books at a very young age. Her favourites were those by C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, and later on Raymond E. Feist, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey and Frank Herbert; in fact, anything with beautiful and spellbinding words and imagery that would allow her to escape into other worlds. Her debut novel The Red Door is a fulfilment of her lifelong dream, to interweave a story with pictures ... and draw the reader into her own bewitching, and slightly dark-edged, world. Read More Read Less