About Roma Tearne: Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan-born artist and writer. Her first novel, Mosquito, was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Book Awards first Novel prize (formerly the Whitbread Prize).
It is important for women to do something about what they see.
Grey has no agenda. . . . Grey has the ability, that no other colour has, to make the invisible visible.
Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.
Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.