Background
Her mother was a teacher at the Camberwell School of Art and her father was recorded as an agent.
Her mother was a teacher at the Camberwell School of Art and her father was recorded as an agent.
She first went to a school in Romiley, but then attended the Manchester High School Foreign Girls, with her twin sister Muriel. She studied under Henry Tonks (1862-1937), Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942) and John Wheatley (1892-1955).
At this time she was living at 40 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, North.W, the same house where Mark Rutherford, the novelist, lived in 1852. She founded the school"s printmaking and engraving department. In 1938 she accepted the post of Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, where she remained until 1957.
Rosa Hope designed the tile tableau of the Great Trek Centenary in the Irene Post Office in 1939.
In January 1923 she was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. She exhibited drawings at the New English Art Club, the Redfern, Old Bond Street and Messrs.
P. and Doctorate. Colnaghi at the Grosvenor Galleries. She exhibited with the South African Society of Artists (SASA) until 1942.
She was a member of the Society of Graphic Art, the Hampstead Society of Artists and the Print Collectors’ Club.