Sister Anselma Scollard OSB

SISTER ANSELMA SCOLLARD OSB spent her childhood and youth in California, USA. She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Warwick. Her studies are in the fields of philosophy and art, more specifically aesthetics and sculpture. She has spent a good deal of time pursuing her studies in art through extensive travels throughout Europe. Although particularly interested in the Quarto Centro period of Italian art and the medieval period of French art, her great interest in modern and contemporary art has taken her to Paris, Amsterdam and London.

She did not begin to publish her written work until she joined St. Cecilia’s Abbey on the Isle of Wight. Her monastery is a member of the Solesmes Congregation. She is a Benedictine, enclosed, contemplative nun. She has further pursued her work in sculpture in the production of furniture and the creation of gardens within the monastery, incorporating the use of shapes and colours inherent in plants in a monastic setting.