Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan-born artist and novellist living and working in Britain. She arrived with her parents in this country at the age of ten. She trained as a painter, completing her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. For nearly twenty years her work as a painter, installation artist and filmmaker has dealt with the traces of history and memory within public and private spaces.

In 1998, the Royal Academy of Arts, London, highlighted one of her paintings, Watching the Procession, for ... Learn more