ROXANA HALLS
Roxana Halls is a largely self-taught artist and has, for several years, made her studio in the disused bar of a 1930s London theatre, now a bingo hall.
Her most recent solo exhibition, SHADOW PLAY, was held at Hayhill Gallery, Cork Street, London, in November 2011.
'Roxana Halls' Tingle - Tangle' was exhibited at the National Theatre, South Bank, London in 2009.
In 2010 she was joint winner of the Founder's Purchase Prize in the Discerning Eye show, and she was the winner of Pride in the House at Lauderdale House, where she held her prize winning show 'Tingle-Tangle & Other Tales' in 2011. In 2004 she was the winner of the Villiers David Prize, and in 2001 she received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award.
She has had three successful solo exhibitions at the Beaux Arts Gallery in Bath, and her work has been exhibited in numerous group shows including the National Portrait Gallery B.P. Portrait Award, The National Open Art Competition, The Garrick Milne Prize, The Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Competition and The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, also regular group shows with Beaux Arts, both in Bath and at the London Art Fair.
Commissions include Alan Grieve CBE, Chairman of the Jerwood Foundation and John Simopoulos, Emeritus Professor, St. Catherine's College Oxford.
Her work is in many private and public collections in the UK and internationally, including The Discerning Eye Collection, Brian Sewell and Katherine Parkinson.

Portrait by Frances Borden