William has been sited in Umbria with an important friend from the acting profession.


His painting "Prayers" on show at the Brian Sinfield Gallery has had a lot of interest 
however it is still considered too controversial for most buyers. The image seems harmonious, however 
the content is to say the least complex. Under the quiet veneer exists a most intense discourse.
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This still life was painted as a homage to Luca 

Pacioli, the quattrocento mathematician.  It was the last still life William arranged while living in Sansepolcro.

Picasso appears to have been an influence on Rose. This work demonstrates a return to 'valore plastic' metaphysical and cubist tendencies. A powerful piece now in a private collection in Milan.

More Cooks! William Balthazar Rose is opening another one man show at the Brian Sinfield Gallery, 127 the Hill, Burford, Oxon OX18 4RE. Reception Sunday the 14th of September, from 11am - 4pm. Catalogue available.

The exhibition is the result of over two years of intense work, and includes several larger pieces, landscapes, cooks, figure studies, and the mysterious work 'The Wheel.'

Sansepolcro, the birthplace of Piero della Francesca has been the subject of several landscape studies. One of these is to be exhibited in the up and coming solo show at the Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford.
The one seen here, the painter gave to his wife in 2012.

Rose was clearly influenced by this detail of the 'Flagellation' by Piero della Francesca. The painting is one of several works by Rose in which the cook becomes the protagonist for larger issues.

Metaphysical painting including the work of Giorgio DeChirico and Giorgio Morandi had a major affect on Rose's painting from an early age. In the early 1980s Rose visited an exhibition of Morandi's paintings at the San Francisco MOMA. He subsequently wrote a review for 'Concrete Magazine' funded by the College of Environmental Design, Berkeley.
Rose has worked often as a still life painter, and has equally incorporated the metaphysical approach into his other paintings. While teaching at the university of California, Berkeley he gave a seminal lecture on the relationship between the metaphysical school of painters and the architect Aldo Rossi.