"Art is simplification. The greater the simplification, the more likely the artist is to draw upon her intuitive creativity, thereby expressing emotions too subtle for words. The emotion of my subject is most important. Whatever my medium, I want the viewer to be spellbound. That's the ultimate achievement", says Rosie Sandifer.
        Well established as a painter and sculptor, Sandifer struggled for many years to balance her time between being a professional artist and mother. Many of her early sculpture commissions were portraits of prominent individuals. Eventually she began to draw from the world around her for subject matter children playing, reading and dancing. Some of her most successful works have been studies of her own children and their friends.
        Participating in more that 80 exhibitions / shows, Rosie has received awards from the American Artists Professional League in New York, the Medal of Honor for Sculpture, the Solo Award from the Pen & Brush in New York, and the National Sculpture Society, the John Cavanaugh Memorial Prize in New York. She is a member of the American Artists Professional League and the National Sculpture Society. Her bronzes are included in public collections at Texas Tech University, Benson Park Sculpture Garden in Loveland, Colorado and Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina among others.

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