Rosalie Jean Mattair was born on January 7th, 1998, in Jacksonville Florida, and passed away at age 27 on February 20th, 2025.
She was a singularly gifted artist, making elaborate pictures of dragons since she could hold a marker and undergoing intensive training in the fine arts, beginning with a summer program at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She completed with honors a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin Stout, a polytechnic university. She majored in Entertainment Design with a concentration in Comic and Sequential Art. Her work has been published in Volume One magazine and she showed at a recent exhibit at StudioJKH in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Her greatest love was oil painting. She was also an insightful writer, creating imaginative stories with illustrations and filling journals with ruminations and sketches on esoteric topics such as emotional alchemy and God.
Rosalie will also be remembered for her profound intelligence, incisive and whimsical sense of humor, beauty & fashion sense, and tenderness for children, animals, and the vulnerable. She had a passion for literature and an eclectic taste in music.
