About

Born in Compton Bassett, England, Romayne Dawnay was educated at the Oxford School of Art and Hornsey Art School, London.  She has worked in Rome on sets at Cine Citta, and as an archaeological draughtsman on numerous sites in Italy and the Middle East.  Her archaeological drawings appear in journals of The British School at Rome, The British Institute of Persian Studies, and various publications of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Royal Ontario Museum.

A children’s book, The Champions of Appledore, which she wrote and illustrated, received a Kirkus Review pointer when it was published by MacMillan.

A painter for many years, her work has appeared in group exhibitions in England, Italy and America.  A solo exhibition was recently held in the fall of 2007 at the Piers Feetham Gallery, London.

An exhibition of paintings of south-Indian house forms, in conjunction with an exposition of the work of the Sudar Foundation, a south-Indian woman’s educational organization started by her daughter Zoe,  is planned to open at the Nehru Center, London in November 2007.

She lives with her husband by a lake in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, USA.