Crossroads Del Sol Photography
Artist Statement
While my work is based in landscape, it is not a replication of a particular place, but rather an experience of place. I start by working directly on site in watercolor, pastel, and ink on paper. Each media acts as an independent voice that combines with the others as different lines of music combine to create a harmony while maintaining their own distinct, individual identities. These works on paper inspire the larger more abstracted oil paintings created in the studio.
I hope that each brush stroke or line is expressive, and I strive to allow these abstract elements to remain visible to communicate that energy of spirit which transcends literal description or meaning. As Arthur Wesley Dow writes, “The artist doesn’t teach us to see facts, he teaches us to feel harmonies.”
BIO
Marrin Robinson is an artist whose paintings are inspired by landscape. A recipient of a Fulbright Grant, she spent a year painting in Portugal. Her Artist Residencies include The Colorado College, The American College of Greece, the University of Hawaii in Hilo, and the Ragdale Foundation in Chicago. She has also received grants to complete a series of work from Petra, Jordan and Siwa and Luxor in Egypt. In 2013 she went to Udaipur, India to paint and gave a lecture on her work at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Gujarat, India.
Robinson received her B.A. from Dartmouth College, studied at The Leo Marchutz School in Aix and Provence, France and spent a summer at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before receiving her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.
She has been an Associate Professor of Art at The American University in Cairo where she was Art Unit Head when they started the major in Art. She has also taught at The Colorado College, Marlboro College in Vermont and at Smith College among other places.
Her work has been exhibited in Egypt, Greece, Portugal, and the United States including Boston, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Hilo, New York City, and in St. Louis. She has also been part of multiple exhibits in Arizona, Kansas, and Vermont. She now lives and paints full time in Santa Fe, New Mexico.