LÁRUSDÓTTIR, Karólína

1944 - 2019

Karólína Lárusdóttir was born in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland on 12 March 1944, daughter of Larus Ludvigsson, a businessman, and his wife Daisy Josefson. Karólína went to Menntaskólinn school and came to the UK in the 1960s and lived most of her life in and around Cambridge in the UK. Karólína studied art for a year at John Cass School of Art, East London, then at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, graduating in 1967. In 1967, she married businessman Clive Percival, whom she had met in London, they had two children, Stephen and Samantha, before they divorced in 1979. In 1983, she married psychologist Frederick Roberts (2022-2002). Around 1978 Lárusdóttir resumed her artistic training, enrolling in evening printmaking courses at Barking School of Art in Essex which became part of the University of East London and during her career she became an elected member of the New English Art Club and a fully elected member of both the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1986, and the Royal Watercolour Society in 1996. She won numerous awards, including The Dicks and Greenbury in 1989, and the 4th Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format, France. In 1990, Karólína received a special award at the Premio Biella Internazionale per L'Incisione in Italy, and was nominated graphic artist of the Year 2005, Islensk Grafik (Icelandic Printmaker's Association) and was the recipient of the Aberystwyth University School of Art Collection Prize 2012. She exhibited in numerous galleries around the UK including the Phoenix Art Gallery at Lavenham, a solo show at the Drian Galleries in London and the Royal Academy used her paintings to advertise their Summer exhibition also exhibiting in Iceland. She remained living in the UK but following the death of her second husband in 2002, Lárusdóttir returned to her native Iceland in 2011, and in 2013, she suffered a stroke and she died at Reykjavik on 7 February 2019, aged 74.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from The Green, High Street, Fowlmere, Hertfordshire
1993 573 The Secret
         1529 The Tea Party
1996 407 The Magician prepares Afternoon Tea
         1097 Man writes a Letter
from 71 Petersfield Mansions, Petersfield, Cambridge
1997 346 The Beautiful Ball Gown
1999 490 The River - watercolour
2000 588 Lunch - watercolour
2001 846 The Summer House - watercolour
2003 370 The Special Meal
from c/o Linda Richardson, 1 Style, Little Bardfield, Braintree, Essex
2004 224 Man with Birds - etching and aquatint
2012 505 Family - etching and aquatint

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Works by This Artist