Rosemary Kilbourn RCA is a Canadian printmaker, illustrator and stained glass artist known for her work in the wood engraving.
Along with commissioned portraits, her early works included illustrating, with wood engravings, two books by her brother William Kilbourn, The Firebrand (1956); The Elements Combined (1960); and Farley Mowat's, The Desperate People (1959).
Her wood engraving based on Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the Earth was featured on a Canadian memorial 17-cent stamp in 1979.
[2] Recently, with Anne Corkett, she selected poems by Richard Outram to accompany illustrations by Thoreau MacDonald, a work commissioned by the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto: South of North: Images of Canada by Richard Outram with drawings by Thoreau MacDonald (2007).
Kilbourn has lived and worked in an old schoolhouse in the Albion Hills since 1957, and has taught at the Artists' Workshop in Toronto, Central Technical School, and McMaster University.