Rosa Luetchford is interested in impersonators, alter egos, and the lives we do not live but sometimes wish we could. Through painting, she explores the space between reality and imagination, constructing scenes that hint at alternative narratives. Her models appear disguised as cultural figures and mythical creatures, blurring identity and performance. Luetchford paints people in the act of becoming someone else.

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Recent work centres on a fabricated seaside tale about a woman waiting in the mudflats. As the tides come and go, she becomes part of the landscape, a place for barnacles to rest and lugworms to uncoil. 

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