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 "Romaine is a realist who enjoys thick paint and solid geometry,” says John T Spike, international art critic for Art & Antiques Magazine, in his 2006 “Closer Look” at Romaine’s painting, “Lion Park Surround”. “This glimpse of Western storefronts is as carefully composed as Hopper’s ‘Early Sunday Morning’, which in turn is a Mondrian in bricks and mortar. Achieving these effects requires reflection...Seventy years after Hopper, the buildings are the same, yet the plot has changed. To Hopper’s habitual question, ‘Isn’t this sad?’ Romaine seems to respond: This is how it is.”
Romaine began her professional career in 2000 and has enjoyed considerable success since then with her work in numerous private and corporate collections and at the Gibbes Museum. She has been a member of Oil Painters of America since 2001 and was invited to be Artist in Residence by the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC, for the year 2003/2004. She and photographer, Jack Alterman, published "Cornices of Charleston", a book of her paintings and his photographs, in 2005. Romaine is represented by galleries in Charleston, South Carolina; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Palm Beach, Florida.
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