Thelma Rosner

Lake Huron, Winter, 2023 ongoing

In a shift from projects involving social issues, i found comfort and calm in nature. These paintings are a sample of works from 2023 to 2025

Bookwork 'Where Can I Go Now? 2022

Stories about each of the objects in the floor piece 'Where Can I go Now?' are told in this unbound book.

Where Can I Go Now? 2021

Tent-like structures depict objects belonging to refugees, which they brought to Canada. The reverse side shows these same objects, painted more intensely, with the addition of the national birds of the refugee's country of origin.

Her Recipes 2020-21

Elisabeth Raab's recipe book, written when she was a prisoner in Auschwitz. She recorded recipes she remembered on discarded Nazi ledgers.

Five Years' Passage 2020

This 'map' of Europe traces seventeen consecutive journeys made by a WW11 survivor in the years 1944-48. 8' x 18' x 2"

Cross Stitch paintings 2011-2018

These large works refer to war, and the plight of innocents. cross stitch marks accumulate to reveal patterns of both weapons and domestic life. Paintings are diptychs, oil/canvas 8' x 6'

Homeland 2011-12

Renderings of land and water are mirrored in this piece. Two peoples claim the same territory: for one, the homeland is actual, its reflection still a dream. Mixed media 2' x 12' x 2'

Israeli-Palestinian Dictionary 2009-11

Objects common to both Israelis and Palestinians are arranged in an accordian book, and labelled in Hebrew and Arabic to signify equality. 34 archival digital prints, each print: 33" x 24"

Elisabeths Book 2008-9

archival digital prints

Border 2006

mixed media: 3' x 22' x 5"

Still Life Paintings

Flowers of the Holy Land 2005

Flowers of the Holy Land 2004

Andalusia Projects

Still Life with her Recipes

Testimony