Robyn's Fine Art

About Robyn & her Art

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Evoking feeling in the viewer, and telling a story is just as important as striving to be a good painter. 

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Channeling the beauty of life, both in human-kind & nature, expression of humankind’s quirks, and story telling to make people smile and (hopefully) go ‘Oh wow!’.

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Robyn's major interest is Old Masters techniques in portraiture. She also enjoys painting more impressionistic landscapes. As a keen photographer, Robyn works almost exclusively from her own photographs.

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Robyn works in oils, acrylics, pastels & pencil.

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Robyn had a ‘lightbulb moment’ during an attempt at pencil drawing around 1997. Never to look back, she has aimed at continual learning in technique & theory, not necessarily in the traditional route, but by constantly seeking great teachers to develop her own style. 

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Originally hailing from Western Victoria, Robyn has lived extensively in Asia. Melbourne was home base several times, then Launceston & she and her husband moved to the Noosa Hinterland in Queensland in early 2020 just as Covid19 began.  

 

Education - Art Studies:

 

• • Studied Fine Arts degree at Curtin University in Western Australia for two years via Open Learning Australia.

  • 5 weeks (approx 175 hours) of intensive oil portrait workshops in New York with world renowned portrait artist Daniel Greene over 3 years

  • Studied Japanese Sumi-E for 4 years in Tokyo

  • Various  teachers in Tokyo, Singapore & Indonesia in drawing, watercolour, & oil painting for over 10 years

  • Classes at Brighton Art Society (Melbourne), under various teachers 2002 - 2014 including Effie Bramald, Craig Penny, Clive Sinclair, Agata Lelek, Herman Pekel. 

  • Classes in Launceston Tasmania 2015 - 2016 with Leoni Duff & with Darren Meader.

  • Month long portrait workshop with Martinho Correia of Italy/Portugal/Canada 2016, studying "Principles of Portrait Drawing" and "Methods of Traditional and Contemporary Portrait Painting" (Oil)

  • Month long portrait workshop with Martinho Correia Nov-Dec 2018 in Launceston, Tasmania studying "Drawing the figure in the Grand Manner - Gesture & Anatomy" & "Contemporary Figure Painting using Bouguereau's Method" (Oil)

  • Two week intensive in Hobart, with Loiuse Fenely from Adelaide, on Still life, technical aspects of lighting and seeing forms, January 2019.

  • Online 4 day Oil portraiture workshop with Martinho Correia, Canada, March 2020.

  • Online 5 week intensive Caravaggio method workshop (Oil) with Martinho Correia, Portugal, Jan - Feb 2021

  • Online 5 week Intensive Bouguereau & the Perfect (Oil) Painting Method with Martinho Correia, Portugal, April - May 2021.

  • Online Intensive 5 week Painting from Photographs with Martinho Correia, Oct- Nov 2021. 

 

Affiliations:

 

Robyn was a member of:

• • Brighton Art Society, Victoria 2004 - 2019

  • Brighton Art Society Committee Member 2006 - 7, 2007 - 8.

  • Member of Launceston Art Society Tasmania, 2015 - 2019

  • Committee Member, Launceston Art Society 2017 - 2018.

 

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