Gardens
Inside Shadows
Leo Robba
Recent paintings: exhibition preview 19 March - 13 April 2013
Space for reflection The creation of gardens is determined by intellectual, social, economic, political and artistic forces, which in turn are mirrored in gardens… ‘As is the Gardener, so is the Garden’ Thomas Fuller, 1732
Leo Robba Dusk, looking through big pines, 2012, oil on canvas, 122cm x 69cm, $5900
Leo Robba, Inside the Plum Tree, Bee Farm Rd, 2012 oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800
GREAT Mother, let Me Once be able To have a Garden, House, and Stable; That I may Read, and Ride, and Plant, Superior to Desire, or Want; And as Health fails and Years increase, Sit down and think, and die in Peace. Virgil (1697)
Leo Robba, A Bird in the Hand, Cliveden House, England, 2012 oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800
Leo Robba, Pines and Autumn Blue, 2012 oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800
Landscape and Meaning “Quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy� Stanley Spencer after moving back to Cookham
Leo Robba, Evening, Lavander and Pines, 2012 oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800
Leo Robba, The Kitten Tree, Hillston 2012 oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800
The Marriage of Landscape and culture God Almightie first Planted a Garden. And indeed, it is the Purest of Humane pleasures. It is the Greatest refreshment of the Spirits of Man:Without which, Buildings and Pallaces are but Grosse Handy-works’ Francis Bacon, 1625 The Genius of Place- The English Landscape Garden (1620 – 1820)
Leo Robba, Golden Shadows, Hillston, oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, 2012 $1800
Leo Robba, Golden Pond, Everglades, 2012 oil on canvas, 64 x 80cm, $4400
Leo Robba, View from Ground Level, Everglades, oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800
Leo Robba, Five Pines, Everglades, oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800
Death and Resurectiuon Some gardens look inward, others look outward, some unfold to the world, some shut themselves off from the world. The medieval cloister dreamed of Eden, in whose image it was concieved There a world-shy spirituality found sanctuary from the tumult of earthly passions and, through prayerand silent contemplation, kept open the prospect of the soul’s perpeptual holiday in heaven. Robert Pogue Harrison
Leo Robba, Looking into Light Everglades, oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800
Leo Robba, Inside Hedges, Looking out, 2013 oil on canvas, 64 x 80cm, $4400
Leo Robba, Study for Garden of Remembrance, oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800
Leo Robba, Garden of Remembrance, 2012, oil on canvas, 170cm x 116cm $9900
Leo Robba, Headdress, Looking Through Shadows, oil on canvas, 110cm x 75cm $5900
Leo Robba Monument, The Everglades, 2013 oil on canvas, 110cm x 75cm $5900
Leo Robba , Dogwood, Before Dark, 2013, oil on canvas, 110cm x 75cm $5900
Leo Robba, Camellia Head, Blue Pool and Shadows 2013, oil on canvas, 110cm x 75cm $5900
Leo Robba, Big Autumn, 2013, oil on canvas, 138cm x 360cm $18000
Leo Robba, Autumn Hillston, 2011, oil on canvas 104cm x 38cm, $3600
Leo Robba, Winter Dogwood 2011, 86cm x 64cm, oil on canvas $4400
Leo Robba, The Tulip Tree, Hillston, 2011 oil on canvas, 64 x 80cm, $4400
Leo Robba, Gold, Pepper Tree and Pines, Hillston, 2013, oil on canvas, 52cm x 38cm $1800
Enquiries
King Street Gallery on William 177 William Street Darlinghurst NSW T:61 2 93609727 F:61 2 93314458 art@kingstreetgallery.com W: www.kingstreetgallery.com.au Director: Robert Linnegar Director: Randi Linnegar