Acrylic, watercolor, rice paper, canvas

Urban Refraction

Piedmont Park in Atlanta.

About

Kathy Robinson

My early studies in Philadelphia were at Drexel University in Fashion and Design.As an outgrowth of that ,wanting to design a true original I took workshops in batik on fabric. I then developed my own language of “ painterly silk batik”. Then, at the age of 50, I went to Italy and took a summer painting program at Florence Academy of Art. Upon my return to Philadelphia I continued those studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art . My most recent work employs various mixed media and acrylics on canvas. I usually begin a painting by building up layers of watercolor, fluid acrylics, and hand painted Japanese paper. Sometimes, as in my earlier work with batik on silk , I will paint with hot beeswax onto the papers. The gentle tension between line and texture in my expressive floral painting is something that I am always trying to be mindful about. That comes from my years of working with the Tjanting tool, laying fluid lines of wax as a resist on silk in an intuitive manor.

Kathy Robinson

describes their creative process

I usually begin a painting by building up layers of watercolor, fluid acrylics, various gessoes, gels and hand painted papers . It may start from a quick sketch or photo or an idea I want to portray, but, then let the painting take the lead and reveal where to go next on the canvas.