Geoffrey Robinson PAINTER
Born East Africa 1945, moved New Zealand 1949, arrived England 1955. Bournemouth School of Art 1961 – 1965.
Switched from purely abstract painting, around the turn of the millennium, to painting semi-abstract still life pictures and was elected an 'Invited Artist' at the annual Discerning Eye exhibition in London and the subject of an ITV Meridian Television documentary.
Art critic and historian Peter Davies wrote of him in 2005: “Geoffrey Robinson is an inventive image maker who, using still life as the main vehicle of expression, introduces imagination and a colourful verve into a well-trodden area of modern painting. The influence, or rather inspiration, of William Scott, Ben Nicholson and Mary Fedden is one reason for his recent success; but without his quite different innovations and interpretations the flattened perspectives and soft anglicised cubism of his work would result in no more than an appealing mannerism.
Make no mistake, Robinson is an ambitious artist not only in the worldly but in the creative sense.” “The eclecticism of post modern culture is present in a distinctive stylistic composite, which has the look of originality as well as of retro familiarity.”
"My approach to painting has always been to look inside myself, rather than to interpret what goes in through my eyes. I make the paintings I want to see. To look inside one’s self is to find memories of other art, dreams, poetrys, pleasing rhythms and colours. Everything is abstract when you look inside yourself."
GR 2012
