Romola Templeman

Place: Perth

Born: 1935

Biography:

Romola Clifton, also known as Romola Templeman, is an Australian artist born in Perth, Western Australia in 1935. She won the Claude Hotchin Art Prize for watercolor in 1956 and the Helena Rubinstein Portrait Prize in 1960. Clifton studied at the Slade School of Art in London and at the University of Western Australia. She had her first solo exhibition at the Skinner Galleries in 1959. Clifton married fellow-artist Ross Morrow and later poet and arts administrator Ian Templeman. She painted a portrait of Paul Hasluck in 1978, which is held in the Historic Memorials Collection at Australian Parliament House. Clifton was a close friend and portraitist of Canberra artist Jan Brown. Her papers are held in the National Library of Australia.