Roxana Halls
@roxanahalls.bsky.social
Wayward Painter.
Exhibited & Collected in the UK & Internationally inc National Galleries of Scotland, Science Museum & Disney Archive
Exhibited & Collected in the UK & Internationally inc National Galleries of Scotland, Science Museum & Disney Archive
I want everyone to know of her extraordinary courage & resolve on the opening night @NPGLondon Although her illness was quite advanced even then she was determined to see the portrait on the walls there. She was frail but so strong, her presence luminous, radiant and powerful.
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I want everyone to know of her extraordinary courage & resolve on the opening night @NPGLondon Although her illness was quite advanced even then she was determined to see the portrait on the walls there. She was frail but so strong, her presence luminous, radiant and powerful.
What a bittersweet summer this has been, celebrating her with friends at the National Portrait Gallery while knowing she was so unwell and keeping it secret.
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
What a bittersweet summer this has been, celebrating her with friends at the National Portrait Gallery while knowing she was so unwell and keeping it secret.
R.I.P Dearest Pam Hogg
Treasure, Warrior, rare and beautiful Pearl - there was never another like her, she will be missed and the legacy of her glorious, singular work remembered forever.
It was a privilege to be her friend, and a great honour to paint her portrait.
Treasure, Warrior, rare and beautiful Pearl - there was never another like her, she will be missed and the legacy of her glorious, singular work remembered forever.
It was a privilege to be her friend, and a great honour to paint her portrait.
November 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
R.I.P Dearest Pam Hogg
Treasure, Warrior, rare and beautiful Pearl - there was never another like her, she will be missed and the legacy of her glorious, singular work remembered forever.
It was a privilege to be her friend, and a great honour to paint her portrait.
Treasure, Warrior, rare and beautiful Pearl - there was never another like her, she will be missed and the legacy of her glorious, singular work remembered forever.
It was a privilege to be her friend, and a great honour to paint her portrait.
You have a point! Ha ha
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
You have a point! Ha ha
LAUGHING WHILE CORPSING series was exhibited for the first time in my first institutional solo exhibition
DIE AUGEN DER ROXANA HALLS
Neue Britische Figurative Malerei
HAUS KUNST MITTE - BERLIN
01/07 - 01/10 2023
DIE AUGEN DER ROXANA HALLS
Neue Britische Figurative Malerei
HAUS KUNST MITTE - BERLIN
01/07 - 01/10 2023
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
LAUGHING WHILE CORPSING series was exhibited for the first time in my first institutional solo exhibition
DIE AUGEN DER ROXANA HALLS
Neue Britische Figurative Malerei
HAUS KUNST MITTE - BERLIN
01/07 - 01/10 2023
DIE AUGEN DER ROXANA HALLS
Neue Britische Figurative Malerei
HAUS KUNST MITTE - BERLIN
01/07 - 01/10 2023
And the title...
"Corpsing is when an actor breaks out into unscripted laughter. The term comes from the theater: The worst possible time to uncontrollably laugh would be on stage, playing a corpse."
"Corpsing is when an actor breaks out into unscripted laughter. The term comes from the theater: The worst possible time to uncontrollably laugh would be on stage, playing a corpse."
October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
And the title...
"Corpsing is when an actor breaks out into unscripted laughter. The term comes from the theater: The worst possible time to uncontrollably laugh would be on stage, playing a corpse."
"Corpsing is when an actor breaks out into unscripted laughter. The term comes from the theater: The worst possible time to uncontrollably laugh would be on stage, playing a corpse."
The traces in the sky were of some form of violent disruption in the air - the trails of a plane spiralling downward - gunshot smoke and birds flying off in rapid unity - a distress flare - a distant bonfire. called to mind a particular passage of Virginia Woolf.
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The traces in the sky were of some form of violent disruption in the air - the trails of a plane spiralling downward - gunshot smoke and birds flying off in rapid unity - a distress flare - a distant bonfire. called to mind a particular passage of Virginia Woolf.
‘le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau’ (‘the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine’). "
I felt I might drink some new wine were I not to know from the outset and well before glancing brush to surface what exactly my women were up to.
I felt I might drink some new wine were I not to know from the outset and well before glancing brush to surface what exactly my women were up to.
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
‘le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau’ (‘the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine’). "
I felt I might drink some new wine were I not to know from the outset and well before glancing brush to surface what exactly my women were up to.
I felt I might drink some new wine were I not to know from the outset and well before glancing brush to surface what exactly my women were up to.
I was thinking of the Surrealist collaborative drawing game Exquisite Corpse when I approached these canvases and decided to play a game of sorts, but with myself.
"The name ‘cadavre exquis’ was derived from a phrase that resulted when they first played the game...
"The name ‘cadavre exquis’ was derived from a phrase that resulted when they first played the game...
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I was thinking of the Surrealist collaborative drawing game Exquisite Corpse when I approached these canvases and decided to play a game of sorts, but with myself.
"The name ‘cadavre exquis’ was derived from a phrase that resulted when they first played the game...
"The name ‘cadavre exquis’ was derived from a phrase that resulted when they first played the game...
A painting for Halloween, or Samhain should you prefer
LAUGHING WHILE CORPSING series - NIGHT
150 X 70 cm
2023
OIL ON LINEN
LAUGHING WHILE CORPSING series - NIGHT
150 X 70 cm
2023
OIL ON LINEN
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A painting for Halloween, or Samhain should you prefer
LAUGHING WHILE CORPSING series - NIGHT
150 X 70 cm
2023
OIL ON LINEN
LAUGHING WHILE CORPSING series - NIGHT
150 X 70 cm
2023
OIL ON LINEN
This is your Pam Service Announcement - I was so pleased to learn that the National Portrait Gallery London
produced postcards of a small selection of paintings currently on show in the Portrait Award exhibition, including mine.... And who doesn't need a little more Pam in their lives?
💛✂️💛
produced postcards of a small selection of paintings currently on show in the Portrait Award exhibition, including mine.... And who doesn't need a little more Pam in their lives?
💛✂️💛
September 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This is your Pam Service Announcement - I was so pleased to learn that the National Portrait Gallery London
produced postcards of a small selection of paintings currently on show in the Portrait Award exhibition, including mine.... And who doesn't need a little more Pam in their lives?
💛✂️💛
produced postcards of a small selection of paintings currently on show in the Portrait Award exhibition, including mine.... And who doesn't need a little more Pam in their lives?
💛✂️💛
Happy #InternationalCatDay - here's Atomic Family, us being the atypical not 'nuclear family' - my painting of Me and The Missus which I made shortly after & in response to the passing of our beautiful, vicious, chronically overloved & dearly missed cat Krasner
August 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Happy #InternationalCatDay - here's Atomic Family, us being the atypical not 'nuclear family' - my painting of Me and The Missus which I made shortly after & in response to the passing of our beautiful, vicious, chronically overloved & dearly missed cat Krasner
Last night with Pam Hogg and my portrait of her at the National Portrait Gallery London for the award ceremony and private view of the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award exhibition.
July 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Last night with Pam Hogg and my portrait of her at the National Portrait Gallery London for the award ceremony and private view of the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award exhibition.
Me and The Missus are Lezzering Off to the National Portrait Gallery
#herbertsmithfreehillskramerportraitaward
#herbertsmithfreehillskramerportraitaward
July 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Me and The Missus are Lezzering Off to the National Portrait Gallery
#herbertsmithfreehillskramerportraitaward
#herbertsmithfreehillskramerportraitaward
Happy Pride, All
It still seems, at times, truly remarkable that my wife and I get to be open, be partnered, be broadly accepted and be free to generally lezzer about together as we please.
It still seems, at times, truly remarkable that my wife and I get to be open, be partnered, be broadly accepted and be free to generally lezzer about together as we please.
July 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Happy Pride, All
It still seems, at times, truly remarkable that my wife and I get to be open, be partnered, be broadly accepted and be free to generally lezzer about together as we please.
It still seems, at times, truly remarkable that my wife and I get to be open, be partnered, be broadly accepted and be free to generally lezzer about together as we please.
@ttrueman.bsky.social PORTRAIT OF DR PAM HOGG to be exhibited in the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer award show at the NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON - show opens to the public one week today
I'll share the painting with you properly once the exhibition is open I'm just teasing 💛✂️💛
@NPGLondon
I'll share the painting with you properly once the exhibition is open I'm just teasing 💛✂️💛
@NPGLondon
July 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
@ttrueman.bsky.social PORTRAIT OF DR PAM HOGG to be exhibited in the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer award show at the NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON - show opens to the public one week today
I'll share the painting with you properly once the exhibition is open I'm just teasing 💛✂️💛
@NPGLondon
I'll share the painting with you properly once the exhibition is open I'm just teasing 💛✂️💛
@NPGLondon
Happy 80th Birthday DEBBIE HARRY
here as NICKI BRAND
in VIDEODROME
which The Missus and I just saw Yet Again @BFI in their Moviedrome season
Long live the new flesh!
one of my wayward women of cinema - an ongoing series first shown at Marlborough Gallery London in 2023
here as NICKI BRAND
in VIDEODROME
which The Missus and I just saw Yet Again @BFI in their Moviedrome season
Long live the new flesh!
one of my wayward women of cinema - an ongoing series first shown at Marlborough Gallery London in 2023
July 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happy 80th Birthday DEBBIE HARRY
here as NICKI BRAND
in VIDEODROME
which The Missus and I just saw Yet Again @BFI in their Moviedrome season
Long live the new flesh!
one of my wayward women of cinema - an ongoing series first shown at Marlborough Gallery London in 2023
here as NICKI BRAND
in VIDEODROME
which The Missus and I just saw Yet Again @BFI in their Moviedrome season
Long live the new flesh!
one of my wayward women of cinema - an ongoing series first shown at Marlborough Gallery London in 2023
Multiple photographs and films throughout the show grant us the pleasure of the vision of Leonor the glorious libertine herself, resplendent as she weaves her erotic Universe of sheer verve.
June 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Multiple photographs and films throughout the show grant us the pleasure of the vision of Leonor the glorious libertine herself, resplendent as she weaves her erotic Universe of sheer verve.
It explores so much of her symbolic & multifaceted creative repertoire: her sensuous & fantastical paintings are well represented but it's also bursting with her drawings, photographs, costumes, masks, set design, book illustrations& naturally her Schiaparelli perfume bottle.
June 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
It explores so much of her symbolic & multifaceted creative repertoire: her sensuous & fantastical paintings are well represented but it's also bursting with her drawings, photographs, costumes, masks, set design, book illustrations& naturally her Schiaparelli perfume bottle.
I am Leonor Fini - Palazzo Reale - Milan
The Missus and I had the great fortune of seeing this exhibition recently & we gladly discovered her in depth in this comprehensive, superbly curated and staged show - just extended to the end of July, so there's still time to catch it
The Missus and I had the great fortune of seeing this exhibition recently & we gladly discovered her in depth in this comprehensive, superbly curated and staged show - just extended to the end of July, so there's still time to catch it
June 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I am Leonor Fini - Palazzo Reale - Milan
The Missus and I had the great fortune of seeing this exhibition recently & we gladly discovered her in depth in this comprehensive, superbly curated and staged show - just extended to the end of July, so there's still time to catch it
The Missus and I had the great fortune of seeing this exhibition recently & we gladly discovered her in depth in this comprehensive, superbly curated and staged show - just extended to the end of July, so there's still time to catch it
June 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM