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Robin Paine

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Poems

I started to write poems after I moved to the USA in 1992. I was doing a lot of academic writing as a component of my Masters in Fine Art and from time to time, titles for poems would come to me and then came the poems. They often describe a mood which is evoked by moments in specific places where I lived, sometimes in extreme circumstances.

 

Selected poems

Edinburgh Poems

Good Harbour beach, New Massachusetts

Grand Canyon, Arizona

Lazinski Park, Warsaw

Lost jewellery

My approach

Oaxaca 2004Robin Paine is an artist noted for original and accomplished figurative drawings and paintings. She has developed her own lexicon of imagery drawn from her interest in mythology, anthropology, social history, Art history and Natural history.

"My paintings would probably be best described as "figurative" or "realist". I work from life whenever possible and I have found that this is essential when I'm painting people.

I have been affected by works of art from many periods, ranging from Roman Egyptian painted portraits to paintings of Gwen John, but I would also cite film (i.e. the early films of Jean Luc Godard) and photography (the German photographer August Sander) as sources of inspiration."

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