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Robin Symmes is a versatile artist creating both large-scale and miniature paintings in her studio at The Williams Mill Creative Studios in Glen Williams, Ontario.
A graduate of Queen's University with an honors degree combining classics, fine art and art history, Robin paints using both historical media and subject. Her glazed oils framed in gold leaf are luscious and intimate. Her large sketch-like paintings, up to ten fee in length, share stories of human expression, at one mesmerizing and evocative. |
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- 1-600 250-4884
- STUDIO 18, THE WILLIAMS MILL CREATIVE ART STUDIO,
- 515 MAIN STREET, GLEN WILLIAMS, ONTARIO CANADA
L7G 3S9 - STUDIO 18, THE WILLIAMS MILL CREATIVE ART STUDIO,
EMAIL: hfergus@interlog.com
- Detail of Song and Dance
- (oil on canvas, 72" x 108")
- ©1996
- (oil on canvas, 72" x 108")
- Portrait #6
- (oil on canvas, 24" x 28")
- ©1997
- (oil on canvas, 24" x 28")
- 35P
- (oil on canvas, 28" x 48")
- ©1995
- (oil on canvas, 28" x 48")
- ROBIN SYMMES
- Quotes from the Media
- "An exciting new talent" (on Robin Symmes as an artist) The Williams Mill Gallery 1996.
- "Powerful, a bold expressionistic style" John Sommer, Gallery House of Sol.
- "Paintings alive with emotion" Revision Unlimited Arts
- Quotes from the Media
- A Quote by the Artist
- "I was captivated by the drawings of the old masters during my art history studies. Preliminary sketches
- by the 17th - 19th century artists contained economic strokes that formed the structure, the very meaning in
- their paintings. Emotion and power were conveyed by the style, the speed and the immediacy of the
- strokes; as in music, the blanks often spoke louder than the notes. By leaving parts of my compositions
- 'unfinished' I intend to echo the power of the drawings I remembered.
- The subjects were influenced by the Baroque tendency to emphasize human expression and emotion. The
- colored paper used by Van Dyke, Coypel and others inspired me to underpaint in salmon-gold, and
- soulful green colors. These paintings are really coloured drawings emphasizing the initial, oil-stick
- sketch. They were tinted in the final stages with successive oil/varnish glazes.
- I hope to extend the work of earlier painters who championed the freshness of the sketch and the
- painterly approach."
- Robin Symmes
- by the 17th - 19th century artists contained economic strokes that formed the structure, the very meaning in
- Recent News, January 2000
- Watch for my new work; Interpretations Of Modern Portraits And Figures In Fabirc coming in the fall of 2000 at the Williams Mill Gakllery (905-873-8203). It is a collaborative oexhibition with the sculptures
- of Holly Ferguson from October 18 to November 12.
- Also during the month of December 2000, I will be showing more paintings, sketches and drawings at the
- Black Mustard Restaurant in Guelph.
- For more information, visit Robin at Studio 18, The Glen Williams Creative Arts Studios, Glen Williams
- or email at: hfergus@interlog.com
- of Holly Ferguson from October 18 to November 12.
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