I am an artist,  animator and educator born and raised in New York City.  My work begins in close observation— of the world around me and the shifting inner landscapes I carry. Rooted in drawing, painting, and animation, my practice explores presence and perception through layered marks and imagery. Trees, bodies, domestic spaces, and everyday surroundings become recurring motifs—portals through which I engage the cyclical rhythms of daily life as openings into the mystical, ancestral, and eternal.

Drawing is my first language and remains the foundation of my practice. I draw daily—not only to document, but to arrive: in my body, in the present moment. This immediacy carries into my paintings, where impressions of “now” accumulate in layers. Now I see this. Now I see this. And even now, it’s changed again. These shifting layers mirror the simultaneity of experience—stillness and motion, internal and external, fear and wonder, all right now. I’m interested in contradiction and multiplicity, and how the body holds this push and pull.

Lately, I’ve been painting trees—wild, unruly, and deeply present. Trees embody both stillness and motion, standing as witnesses of deep time while also responding constantly to their environments. While not every choice I make is visible in my body, a trees life is recorded in the outline of its branches, the scars on its bark, the swaying, reaching and grounding. I see in them a mirror of the human form: responsive, adaptive, and alive with memory. For me drawing becomes a way to trace those inner shifts—a record of living.

Please email rosie.rudavsky@gmail.com to inquire about commissions, illustration, buying a piece of art, taking a class with me, or anything else. 

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