International Health Humanities Network Membership

Rosie Wellesley studied both Fine art and Medicine as an undergraduate at Oxford University in the days when university education was free, and since then she has continued to develop her art and medical careers in parallel.

After leaving Oxford she taught life-drawing for three years at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art whilst studying clinical medicine. During this time she also drew several large scale murals including at the History of Art Department in Oxford and at UCL medical school. As a junior doctor, she continued her art practice before moving to work in Zambia.  She returned to complete her specialist medical training in Tower Hamlets whilst simultaneously doing the postgraduate ‘Drawing Year’ at the Royal Drawing School in 2010. Since then, she has worked as a children’s author-illustrator with Pavilion Childrens Publishers whilst working part time as a GP. Her sixth picture-book received a Welcome Trust ‘People Award’, was developed with the help of her patients at the Bromley By Bow Partnership, and is (probably) the first dinosaur-themed book to win a BMA award.

She continues her illustration and painting practice whilst now working as a GP in rural Herefordshire. 

www.rosiewellesley.com