Kathy Robinson

Acrylic, watercolor, rice paper, canvas
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.

Urban Refraction

Three questions on inspiration with

Kathy Robinson

  • Describe an object that has inspired you
    The colors and form of the flower has always been one of my biggest inspirations
  • Describe a place that has inspired you
    One of my biggest influences recently are the lush gardens in my Philadelphia neighborhood .The colors and patterns of flowers influence and inspire my work. Also spending the winters in the Florida Keys I have been able to paint that tropical flora and fauna as it meets the sea. In the past several years the most notable person that has influenced my fluid floral paintings through her wonderful technique filled workshops is the American artist Wyanne Thompson .
  • Describe a person that has inspired you
    Wyanne Thompson
  • Unearth more inspirational people, places and objects