Paul ROBINSON

“I left London and moved to Norfolk over five years ago, but it is only in the last eighteen months that I have really connected with my surrounding landscapes. Before,living on the edge of the City, my paintings were invariably monochrome, with occasional dashes of colour - a red traffic light, a green tie, illuminated in a sea of blacks and greys.
Today, life is in full technicolour, in every season and in all weathers.My work is lighter, looser, less reliant on heavy impasto, with sweeping brushstrokes suggesting each subject, and colour is the key in reflecting my vision.
Finding inspiration in Norfolk was like falling in love with an old friend - one day you find that everything has changed and you look anew at what has become so familiar. The brilliant glow of an oil-seed rape field in early June, or the beauty and elegance of boats resting on the muddy salt marshes at Blakeney, the wide open dramatic skies are overwhelming. They say that Norfolk is special because it is on the way to nowhere,and you only come here because you want to..". Paul Robinson 2005

To say Paul has left the City behind him is an understatement. This exhibition exudes his love of his rural surroundings; it shows just how much he has fallen for the magical explosions of crops in bloom, and those fast moving, brilliant, skies and clouds. This refreshing view of Norfolk, as seen by someone previously attuned to crowded City streets is incredibly stimulating, for it proves that the painter has turned a corner and finally succumbed to the vastness and beauty of rural East Anglia. This collection of sweeping vistas,bold foregrounds, crops in bloom,tranquil groups of cattle grazing, boats on the Blakeney salt marshes, and the odd glimpses of human habitation, should delight his many followers.
Noel Oddy and Laurie MacLaren

Curriculum Vitae:

1959 Born Penrith,Cumbria.
1977-9 Attended Carlisle College of Art

Selected Exhibitions

1983,84 - Association of Illustrators
SmithsGalleries, London
1983 - The Music Show, Thumb Gallery - London
1983 - Readers Digest Young Illustrators
Exhibition, London
1991 - British Month, Roy Miles Gallery, London
1993 - Wilde Contemporary Art,Hall Gallery,London
1994 - The Art Show, Alexandra Palace, London
1994 - One Man Show, Stoke Newington,London
1995 - One Man Show, Syndicated Art Gallery,London
1997 - City Gallery, City of London Art Fair
1997 - Selected Artists,Wills Art Warehouse, London
1997 - Churchill’s Gallery, Essex
1998 - The City & other paintings -
Holmes Place, London
1999 - Galerie Valerie Knightsbridge, London -
Xmas exhibition
1999 Newgate Gallery London
1999-2000Highgate Fine Art,Highgate Village,London
2001 Taster exhibition,Regatta Fine Art,Holt,
Norfolk
2001 Connecting the Centuries,Highgate Fine Art
2001 Textural Views, Regatta Fine Art,Holt,
Norfolk
2002 Artisan Gallery, London
2002 Two-man show with Dennis Gilbert NEAC,
Highgate Fine Art
2005 "Discovering Norfolk" Highgate Fine Art