Rosie started to work for HI-Arts as Visual Arts & Crafts Coordinator for Skye and the West Coast at the end of June 2008.

Rosie moved to Skye in 1978 from the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean.  That winter she started producing baskets and bags that could be sold the coming summer. There were no craft shops and only one private gallery. She overcame this shortage of outlets by obtaining an old grocery van, painting it up and parking it within walking distance of her caravan. She advertised for stock from other makers and in 1979 opened what was possibly the islands first craft shop!

During the early 80’s there was a trickle of arts activity mostly in the form of an occasional touring performance from such as the Clown Jewels and a few exhibitions such as the highland open, which exhibited in the old Portree Drill Hall. The need for a community arts centre grew and  there was a call for volunteers to help and she got involved.

In 1989 Rosie was appointed project Coordinator to fundraise and set up An Tuireann Arts Centre where she ran a programme of exhibitions, performance and workshops. Since1995 she has worked freelance enabling the arts & crafts in Skye & Lochalsh across the art forms and with a wide cross section of groups and organisations including the Highland Festival, ArtsPlay, Health & Happiness, Forrest Enterprise Scotland and the Society of Wildlife Artists.

She also set up and ran a number of festivals and cultural projects, including the The Skye folk festival, Edinbane festival and more recently has written proposals for such as DunCelt project in nth west Skye. She is a volunteer presenter with the local radio station Cuillin FM which she helped to establish in 1998.