Welcome to Studio 32 The spiritual home of me, Steve B Robinson. It’s how I think of my studio. It’s small, or compact, or bijou, or however those estate agents spin it. The fact is its big enough for me at the moment, and it’s so close to home. It’s where I find myself when I feel lost. It’s where I get my therapy. It’s where I get my “fix” of art. I used to have a shared space in the Knighton Lane complex, where I was a member and for a short time the treasurer. Now I’m just an associate member. I wondered if moving to a place where I would be alone and not mixing with any other artists would be a good thing or not, but I have been here now for a couple of years and I have seen my art progress in a way that it would not have had I been influenced by all those other talented artists at KLA. So, yes, it was a great move.
Of course, this was taken when I first moved in. All nice and clean and empty. Now it’s all full, and I have rearranged the furniture three times at least until
now I finally have it set out to its optimum shape, with painting storage over a desk, racks for books and paints in the opposite corner, a table to work on one wall (not fixed so it is flexible for usage purposes), and two whole walls for displaying works should I choose to. During this period my work has evolved, as it should do, in both style and content…………..no, hang on, has it changed in content? All those nudes?
Well, I suppose you could say no, it hasn’t changed. But something has gone on. I started to find my style with the above work (HAND OF STANLEY), and then as usual I decided to go and explore other methods, such as this;
(ZILLA) Although to be fair is still a similarity, let me find something else………………………….. (TEA AND EMPATHY) Oh, wait, that’s maybe not so loose, yet it’s not tight either. This is harder than I imagined. Ok, well, at some point I discovered Mel McCudden, who began as an abstract expressionist and then starting seeing figures in his works, so he decided to set them free and now his work is called figurative expressionism………..I know I explored this and I came up with good works, although not all of them were strictly done his way. Some of them contained collage as I sought to impose a certain figure or figures on the abstractedness. This led to a whole solo exhibition in Beverley , Yorkshire, called Truth and Other Myths. Examples coming up;
And……..
They were all interesting in the making. I stared and stared until a figure emerged and then other things came out and then an idea would hit me and that would be that. I haven’t left this method behind completely, but I’m finding that maybe all the things I wanted to tell about myself were now out in the open so now, abstracts are making an entrance.
(those are my legs, by the way, peeking out of the lime green shorts) But in the meantime, I’m also working very slowly on a religious theme, in a contemporary style and description such as………….
(that’s me with MARY MAGDALENE) And you could say that this revelation of working, combining styles and materials, came directly from this painting which won an award.
Thanks for having a look. More can be found on my website, www.steve-brobinson.co.uk or my facebook pages. If I still have the work, then it is still for sale.
Yes, this is me. The new, liberated, devil may care, me. Non-bifurcated to the core.
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