Gallery > SELF PORTRAITS

Laughing With My Mouth Full
Oil on Linen
70 x 60cm
2012
Portrait of the Artist and her Wife
Oil on Linen
118 x 92cm
2012
Carvery
Oil on Linen
120 x 130cm
2013
The Parasol
Oil on Canvas
91 x 91 cm
2000
Birthday
Oil on Canvas
122 x 91 cm
2003
Absence
Oil on Board
122 x 122 cm
1995
Nude
Oil on Canvas
122 x 107 cm
1992
Back
Oil on Canvas
20 x 20 cm
1999
Dollface
Oil on Canvas
20 x 20 cm
2003
Violet
Oil on Canvas
20 x 20 cm
2003
Elvis
Oil on Linen
20 x 20 cm
2003
Edward
Oil on Canvas
20 x 20 cm
2003
Mutt
Oil on Canvas
20 x 20 cm
2003
Dusty
Oil on Linen
20 x 20 cm
2003
Self-Portrait with Familiar
Oil on Canvas
183 x 91 cm
1996

Self portraiture has always formed an integral part of Roxana Halls' work.
These self portraits are fragments from an autobiography that is a story only occasionally told in realist mode. There is much that seems fictional, or fantastical, but they are all scenes from the narrative of a life unfolding in pictures.
Indeed, most of Halls' paintings are bound to this developing story, whether they depict the protagonist herself, other characters, unpopulated locations or simply objects- found or made.



The works 'Nude' and 'Absence' in particular received notable critical acclaim when they, as well as other works in subsequent years, were exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery's B.P. Portrait Award.


"In the National Portrait Gallery’s annual exhibition of young painters’ work I have for some years now always looked first for Roxana’s offering. She has never won the prize she so much deserves, but that has been the fault of shallow judges who in haste have failed to recognise her discerning draughtsmanship and honest ability to paint, who have not read the eerie narratives behind the portraiture, who have been too dull-witted to share her passionate melancholy."

Brian Sewell