Sylvia Antonsen was born in 1937 in Dorset and trained at Bournemouth College of Art, studying painting and textiles. After some years of teaching in London and Cheshire, Sylvia Antonsen worked as a designer at the Royal School of Needlework then lectured at the Northampton School of Art and taught painting and printmaking at the London borough of Richmond Upon Thames, whilst also bringing up a family of three. In 1991, Sylvia Antonsen stopped teaching to devote full time to painting. Since then Sylvia Antonsen has been exhibited consistently, particularly with Thompson's Galleries in London, Aldeburgh and Stow, in addition to The Open Eye gallery in Edinburgh, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath and Byard Art. Cambridge.

Sylvia Antonsens main subject matter is man-made shelters, both temporary and permanent, such as beach huts, light houses, allotment sheds and tents found within the coastal landscape of East Anglia.

She is greatly influenced by the likes of Casper David Freidrich, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Paul Nash and Edward Hopper.

1957 National Diploma in Design in Painting and Embroidery

1958 Art Teachers Diploma

1962 Teaching, Cheshire and London

1959 Designer at the Royal School of Needlework

1962 -1965 Lecturer in Printed Textiles at Northampton School of Art

1974 -1991 After raising a family of three, taught painting and print-making in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

1991 Relinquished teaching post to devote full time to painting

Group Exhibitions

Bath Society of Artists, Alpha Gallery (Bath), Hitchcock’s Gallery (Bath), Fountain Fine Art (Dyfed), Open Eye Gallery (Edinburgh), Byard Gallery (Nottingham), Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, Bow House Gallery (Barnet), Beatrice Royal Gallery (Eastleigh), Lacemarket Gallery (Nottingham), Thompson’s Gallery (Aldeburgh and Dover Street) including Art ‘96-‘98

Solo Exhibition

1996 Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath