About Mattie Rose Templeton

Mattie Rose Templeton is inspired by the living and natural world that surrounds us all. Through art, she explores our connection to nature, including the undeniable fragility that is found there. And the importance for us to protect it. Art, since the beginning, has been a way to record history through visual storytelling. Mattie Rose attempts to produce art that moves the viewer beyond the piece itself, and into that storytelling place.

Using an “old fashioned” ink well, with variously-sized nibs, Mattie Rose is able to add different texture and line. She often avoids using color, because she finds the contrast of black and white more dramatic. While the subject matter of her work is based in realism, there is a conceptual quality added through geometric shapes and patterns.

Mattie Rose is a self-taught artist, born and raised in rural Maine. As a child, she had a plethora of illustrated children's books at her finger tips. Mattie Rose and her three siblings were homeschooled and the family lived off grid. This alternative lifestyle was the foundation for the blooming of her vivid imagination. Much of her adult life has been spent in the rich and thriving art world of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mattie Rose's work has been greatly influenced by Spanish American and Native American art styles.

Today, Mattie Rose can be found sitting in front of a big window pen in hand, looking out at the beautiful mountains of Grafton Notch. Mattie Rose is an active part of the western Maine arts community. She has published a children’s book in collaboration with the Appalachian Mountain Club. Her work can be found in over 75 stores across New England and beyond. A full list of these vendors is located under the “stockists” tab on her website. During the summer she participates in many multi day artisan fairs in Maine and New Hampshire. If you know of an event or space where you think her work would shine, please contact her!

In the coming year Mattie Rose will be working on a new book project, playing with her two young children, and working the land at her off grid home.

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“I invite you to enjoy the stories my art has to tell, and hope you leave inspired.”- Mattie Rose