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Website: http://www.antoniarolls.co.uk www.antoniarolls.blogspot.com

College / University: aberdeen university

Program / Degree: history of art

Graduation: June 20, 1983

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Painting

I am...: Living and working in West Sussex. I have 3 teenaged children and a lovely studio in my garden. I like peace and quiet, my bike, and lots of chats over tea and cakes with friends.

About my artwork: Figurative, colourful, witty, clear. I paint in oils or acrylics, portraits, a respectful sideways look at religion, simple fun angels and plump ladies by the sea.

Artists I like: Oh I like Rembrandt, Canaletto, Jackie Griffiths, Ruskin Spear, Renaissance Painters

Interests: Reading, cream teas, gentle cycling, friends, blogging, flowers, reggae.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?: Gay Icons

Centre of the artworld:: nowhere and everywhere

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A Graceful Death Exhibition coming to London. Hooray

A Graceful Death Exhibition is a raw and powerful exhibition of the end of a life. How a body succumbs to cancer and folds up and away, while somehow the breath keeps coming. The miracle of life is enhanced by comparing it to way a human body dies. This exhibition is hard to look at, but not frightening. It makes us think of how we will all die, and the process of the End of A Life. I have 19 paintings in the A Graceful Death exhibition. They show the… Continue

Posted on January 3, 2010 at 4:30pm

Monday Is Progressing Nicely

Today I am full of beans. I have a clear head. Organising my exhibition on "A Graceful Death" is not a worrying mass of things I am not doing properly. I am producing a haunting exhibition on the end of a life with cancer, and have spent this weekend with a photographer friend photographing the paintings I have done so far. And the sun is shining, the birds are singing and time will outlast all of us. These paintings I am showing in December will last longer than me, and all of us will fade… Continue

Posted on September 14, 2009 at 10:00am