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17th February 2023...

Continuously getting it wrong is a thing I love, it results in layers and textures that evolve subconsciously. Shaping the painting and allowing me to think free of constraints, design or planning. I listen with my heart to the marks I make….

Take your mind for a walk.

There is a well taught method of creation roughly referred to as taking a pencil for a walk or taking a line for a walk. You close your...

David Robertson

Mar 27, 20241 min read

A Winters Wood

A series of studies based around a photograph I took in the last snowfall. The early morning light gave the small woodland a golden,...

David Robertson

Feb 4, 20241 min read

Understanding?

There are many ways I approach my work and it is constantly evolving. Much of what you have seen in this gallery is about me...

David Robertson

Dec 22, 20232 min read

OF PASTURE AND EMOTION.

As a boy I was lucky enough to grow up surrounded by nature both rural and the very natural. From the woodlands and forests to farms,...

David Robertson

Nov 30, 20231 min read

INTERPRETATION

UNFINSHED With a working title 'Last Morning of Summer'. How do we interpret an image, an idea of the thing we wish to depict? For me I...

David Robertson

Sep 16, 20231 min read

Greeting cards and prints

I have been looking into this idea for a while but until now had not found the desired quality of print. The cards I will make available...

David Robertson

Jul 4, 20231 min read

Learning

I began this painting in bitumen and white emulsion. It was a rather ordinary landscape with little emotion reflected back at me. While...

David Robertson

Apr 19, 20231 min read

BITUMEN

A paint, oil based, industrial and more given to the outside, garden sheds, roofs and fences. It is along with white emulsion one of my...

David Robertson

Apr 6, 20231 min read

Wordery

I am often, if not always asked about the text in my work, what the words say or mean, what is the purpose of it. Apart from the visible...

David Robertson

Mar 8, 20231 min read

Almost

As you can see this very large canvas is nearly complete....the Buzzard needs more detail, then I will listen to the painting with my heart.

David Robertson

Mar 5, 20231 min read

Yallery Brown (Lincolnshire Folklore)

Perhaps to begin with the most notable of my folklore discoveries while living in Lincolnshire. A boghat.....Tiddymun. I have an idea to...

David Robertson

Mar 4, 20231 min read

Love this.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ROBERT FROST

David Robertson

Mar 3, 20231 min read

Connection

I recently spent a few minutes standing upon the tombstone of Henry VIII. I was fascinated by the feeling of a perceived connection in...

David Robertson

Mar 3, 20231 min read