Robin Hollingdrake
Robin Hollingdrake
Oil
Collage
Acrylic
Robin attended the Ontario College of Art, now called OCADU, where she received the Reeves and Sons Award. She came out of high school with the David L. Stevenson award for Commercial Art. In 1978 Robin completed the three year Ceramics Art Program at Sheridan College and made pottery for a ten year period after that. A highlight of that time was having the painters Robert Markle, Gord Rayner and Graham Coughtry in her studio, and as their ceramic’s technician, assisted them in creating works in clay, for a show at the Issacs Gallery in Toronto.
In 2004, after a leisurely vacation driving across Canada with her son to see the country, Robin came to the decision to start a series of paintings that became her Fifty Series. By 2006 there were enough completed paintings for a major solo exhibition at the Neilson Park Creative Centre. Invitations followed to exhibit in 2008 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga and the Art Gallery of Burlington. Robins’ work is currently available at the Westland Gallery in London, at The Art Gallery of Burlington Shop and at the General Fine Craft Gallery in Almonte, Ontario.
Website: robinhollingdrake.com
Collage
Acrylic
Robin attended the Ontario College of Art, now called OCADU, where she received the Reeves and Sons Award. She came out of high school with the David L. Stevenson award for Commercial Art. In 1978 Robin completed the three year Ceramics Art Program at Sheridan College and made pottery for a ten year period after that. A highlight of that time was having the painters Robert Markle, Gord Rayner and Graham Coughtry in her studio, and as their ceramic’s technician, assisted them in creating works in clay, for a show at the Issacs Gallery in Toronto.
In 2004, after a leisurely vacation driving across Canada with her son to see the country, Robin came to the decision to start a series of paintings that became her Fifty Series. By 2006 there were enough completed paintings for a major solo exhibition at the Neilson Park Creative Centre. Invitations followed to exhibit in 2008 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga and the Art Gallery of Burlington. Robins’ work is currently available at the Westland Gallery in London, at The Art Gallery of Burlington Shop and at the General Fine Craft Gallery in Almonte, Ontario.
Website: robinhollingdrake.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
I always start to paint with the fresh feelings of an adventure. Those first sloshes of colour break the spell of the newness of the painting surface. I’m invited in to find my way. It’s like untangling the messy branches in the overgrown garden of my mind that lead to a sunny bench in a clearing. I’m searching to find how all the elements come together until they coalesce into a painting or a moment and then I look again to see something anew.
I always start to paint with the fresh feelings of an adventure. Those first sloshes of colour break the spell of the newness of the painting surface. I’m invited in to find my way. It’s like untangling the messy branches in the overgrown garden of my mind that lead to a sunny bench in a clearing. I’m searching to find how all the elements come together until they coalesce into a painting or a moment and then I look again to see something anew.