Roma’s work uses figurative images of suburban life. Some of these images are taken from her home, garden and surrounding environment. She lives close to the offices, shops and restaurants of Box Hill Central in Melbourne Australia, where there is a large Chinese community. This series of paintings reflects her lived experience of the on-going change from a traditional Australian suburban life to a more cosmopolitan lifestyle.
She uses highly decorative borders, which serve to capture and enhance these scenes of the everyday. They are like windows from which the external world and/or an internal world may be viewed. She uses Celtic patterning inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts yet the subject imagery and colour palette in this painting have a distinctive Asian sensibility.
For Roma, the heart of her home is her kitchen and one of her most valued cooking utensils is her wok. She pays tribute to it here in this painting.
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