Artist and painter Roo Waterhouse began her art education at Chelsea school of art, then London college of printing, where she studied typographic design followed up with a degree in visual art from Leeds met university. She now lives in Hebden bridge, west Yorkshire, where she has her painting studio. Roo Waterhouse's talent is to both abstract and reproduce the worn history of much loved books. Her unique carefully rendered, reverential “shelf portrait” oil paintings capture and celebrate treasured books gathered together on shelves, showing collections resonating with the relationships they hold. Roo’s work blends together her love of oil painting, of books and of typography, with a fascination about how our bookshelves can hold on to our stories and reflect our lives.