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Geoffrey Robinson
“Throughout my years as a painter, despite whatever reasons I thought I may have had for
doing what I do, my motives have basically remained unchanged. Whether working in the
strictly abstract, be it expressive or cool and clean or, as I do these days, make
semi-abstract paintings mostly from my imagination and memory, it is in pursuit of just a
few basic things. Every time I set about making a painting the considerations order
themselves something like this: Colour, Composition, Style and Narrative.
And while I work I think about the balance of it all; the dynamics and the nature of the
composition. I cling on to the original notion that started it all: possibly something
I've noticed, like the way that Roger Hilton may have managed to use a brown with a grey;
or maybe I have recalled an old kitchen knife of my mother's on our breakfast table.
Whichever objects I paint they are my concepts, very much affected by what I have already
seen in British and European art of the last 100 years. Not new. But there's definitely a
lot of me in them too. “
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On a Dining Table
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On a Kitchen Table
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On Two Tables
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Three Fishes
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Geoffrey Robinson was born in East Africa in 1945 and after spending 7 years in New
Zealand from 1948, he moved, with his family, to England, where he attended Bournemouth
College of Art in 1961. After a successful career working within advertising and the
music industry, it was not until 1990 when Geoffrey began to seriously exhibit his
paintings. Since then he has shown with many UK galleries including Lena Boyle Fine Art,
Stour Gallery, Grapevine Gallery, Mullan Gallery and has been asked to exhibit a solo
show at Thompson’s Gallery, London in 2008.
Collectors of Robinson’s work include Lord Puttnam, George Michael and Quentin Wilson,
alongside several public works in the Royal Bournmouth Hospital, St. George’s Healthcare
NHS Trust and Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum. He has appeared in an half-hour ITV
documentary filmed in his home and studio called ‘The Frame’.
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