Robin Reynolds

I embrace the notion of beauty and create luminous, lush, layered surfaces outside painting plein-air from spring to fall. I paint and find inspiration watching the lifecycle of nature. The flowers and plants act as a catalyst, allowing me to manipulate paint and create a dance between abstraction and representation. My garden is my sanctuary. An intuitive approach of playful and energetic mark making begins a process of looking, layering, wiping away and building up of a surface celebrating the exuberance of color and line found within nature. Instead of depicting a time-anchored botanical or geographical exactitude I work in a series of three to seven sittings welcoming weather and the passage of days to transform my viewpoint. The garden serves solely as a guide for my organic process within my outside studio.

In today’s world, with such a vulnerable environment at the forefront of politics, beauty and spirituality play a pivotal role within my work. In my paintings I strive to capture the essence of a place through its growth, bloom and decay. These natural rhythms of nature create a lyrical energy, a poetic mediation occurs and the end result always has the ability to surprise me, spurring me to create even more.