ROBIN MORRIS

The themes Robin chooses to work with are the human figure and still-life.  In recent years these have often been combined to exploit formal analogies and to create an imaginative context for both elements.  As a figurative artist he works within a long tradition of close observation and concern with pictorial structure,  but his work is also informed by memory,  feeling and a sense of narrative.

“I have always had a concern for the humanity and identity of my human subjects and in my recent work this has been expressed through an approach that is  basically that of portraiture. For me,  the uniqueness of an individual body is as expressive of identity as is the face.”

These paintings are made over a number of sittings and the narrative is in the process - in the difference in perception between one sitting and the next and in the record of this through the adjustments and changes made. They are essentially about looking and making marks that stand in place of that moment of perception and feeling.

Robin trained as a painter in the 60’s and has since worked as an art tutor and now as a full time painter.