It was at this time that met and married the artist Roger Hilton.
With the advent of a young family, Rose put her artistic career on hold and concentrated on her two sons Bo and Fergus, whilst continually supporting Roger in his burgeoning career.

Rose has always been a painter. It was only after the sad death of her husband, that she began to concentrate on her own career and now is an enormously respected painter in her own right.

She executes her work with grace and sensitivity, her palette of rich and subtle hues evoke an atmosphere of luxurious hot languid afternoons reminiscent of a F Scott Fitzgerald novel. Her use of colour literally blossoms on the canvas giving life to her subjects whilst never becoming over stated. In her post-impressionistic style Rose creates an elegant narrative to her work, be it a nude in the studio or a distant landscape, the viewer has no choice but to be drawn into the scene.

Rose has exhibited with the David Messum Gallery in Cork Street Since 1990.