Y A N K E E   L O N D O N  S T U D I O

Musings from a Yankee artist abroad in London...
Pottering
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I was fortunate to have had two exceptional art teachers in high school, Dr. Wilkins & Mrs. Monroe, and I am still reaping the rewards of the ideas sowed in their classrooms many years ago. Mrs. Monroe once described an artist's journey as a spiral: from one perspective you keep traversing a circle, like the expressions "come full circle" or "going around in circles." But if you shift the axis, then you see that ideas are revisited in different variations and iterations, so you will never be at the same point twice.

A week ago I threw a pot, after a hiatus of 17 years, and realized that I had forgotten how the process itself is grounded in being in the moment. Another form of moving meditation and temporal gesture.                                                                                         June 2021
"Embracing counterpoints, like moments of stillness found within chaos, I use a range of materials in my work: drawings, paintings, ceramics, printmaking, video, installation and sculpture."

Romi Sloboda was born in the United States and spent her childhood living in both the United States and her mother's native city, Seoul, Korea. She studied printmaking at the Santa Reparata Graphic Arts Centre in Florence, and received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA from London Metropolitan University. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the United States as well as in Europe. She has been awarded residencies from the Cité Internationale des Arts Fondation in Paris, the University of Texas at Dallas, and the Herekeke Arts Center in New Mexico. Romi currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom.