A sea change for Rosanne

In three weeks' time she will travel to Israel to work alongside 14 other international wildlife and landscape artists to help raise awareness of the plight of the Dead Sea and other areas essential to bird migration in the country.

Rosanne, who gained an MA at the Royal College of Art in London, is a member of Artists for Nature Foundation. In 2011, at her suggestion, the organisation set up a project in Sark in which Rosanne was joined by an international group of award-winning artists to record and explore the beauty and fragility of the island's unique ecosystem and its way of life.

The result was an exhibition and a book called Art For the Love of Sark.

'Israel will be a similar thing,' explained Rosanne. 'It is called Bringing the Dead Sea to Life and one or two of the artists that were here in Sark will be going too. I was asked in October last year if I was interested and of course I said yes. It's with artists who have done projects previously, so there'll be Anna Kirk Smith and her partner Quentin Budworth, a photographer, from Wales, Bruce Pearson from Scotland and Nick Derry from Bristol, as well as artists from Palestine, Israel and Jordan.'

The 10-day visit will see the artists working in public events that will draw in local visitors. The artists will spend each day in the open landscapes of the Dead Sea drawing and painting. There will be tours, lectures and workshops for students, artists and the general public. The festival will take place at different areas within each country – Ein Gedi, Israel, Jericho, Palestinian Territories and Wadi Mujib, Jordan and a special trip to Aqaba, Eilat and Jerusalem.

The festival culminates in an exhibition that will form the basis of a travelling exhibition and, like Sark, a full-colour art book of the project.