The false proscenium arch painted for Normansfield Theatre - detail

Rosalind Robinson studied Fine Art at Hornsey & Walthamstow Colleges of Art and worked as a scenic artist with the BBC.

She has been a professional artist and specialist decorator for more than 25 years, producing her own paintings, murals and fine decorations on walls and furniture in the UK and abroad.

Paintings and drawings have been exhibited at

Murals commissioned in public buildings include

  • Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London W1. Fourteen large mural panels for the Grosvenor Suite Ballroom.
  • Clermont Club, Berkeley Square, London SW1. Trompe l'oeil grisaille work to the restaurant ceiling.
  • The Inn on the Park, Hyde Park Corner, London SW1. Painted and gilded decoration to the banqueting room ceiling.
  • Kansas City Hotel, Kansas City, USA. Paintings to the Ballroom reception area.
  • Devizes Museum. Murals for the Mediaeval Galleries.
  • Normansfield Theatre, Teddington ,Middlesex. Recreation of the Victorian stage scenery for the Langdon Down Centre Trust.

Specialist painting projects include

  • Harrods, Knightsbridge, London SW1. Redecoration of the Harrods Food Halls with painted and gilded plasterwork, tiled medallions and marbling, and mural panels in the Safety Deposit Vaults.
  • Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Marbling of the columns in the Sheldonian Theatre auditorium.
  • The Chinese Pagoda, Cliveden. Restoration of the pagoda, with trompe l'oeil effects and gilding for the National Trust.

Other works, involving more than thirty year's experience painting for discerning clients, are in private residences throughout Britain, and in Gøteborg, Rome, Paris and the United States of America.