Bodil Rosenberg is a Painter--an Artist--with a capital P and a capital A. She has always been preoccupied with the painting itself--the colour and its application and structure, the surfaces. The recognisable elements that have appear, serve as vehicles of colour only, and emphasize the abstract nature of the painting. The landscapes that the spectator actually sees in the paintings, are the viewer's very own projections on to the paintings themselves.

In the present series of paintings the figurative element has become more prominent, because they have a historical account as their starting point, without compromising, however, the artistic qualities. The paintings still have abstraction as their background and basic element.

While the media abound with accounts of the royal wedding, Bodil Rosenberg immerses herself in the story of the Tasmanian princess, Truganini, daughter of the chief of the Lyluequonny tribe. She was the last aboriginal Tasmanian when she died in 1876. Within a lifetime the colonists had exterminated the indigenous population. It has been labeled "the world's most thorough and fastest executed genocide".

Although a few of them have a sketch quality about them, well attuned to the inspiration from Australian rock paintings and their formalized figures, Bodil Rosenberg's paintings are always thoroughly prepared, with the colour applied in several layers. Each painting in this series expresses a mood with its own register and colour tone, making them very different. Every single painting has been given prominent attention.

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