artist statement
Robin retired to Kingston in 1991 and took up ART.
She started with pen and ink, added watercolour washes, messed about with acrylics and oils and settled for a couple of years of decoupage on discarded furniture using a combination of house paint and wrapping paper.
Then one day she stumbled into an exhibition put on by the Kingston Fibre Artists, and begged them, successfully, to let her join.
Since then she’s exhibited with KFA annually and been fortunate enough to have work exhibited across Canada and the United States, in France, the UK and China. In 2016 she had a retrospective at the Window Gallery in Kingston.
For her, fibre is by far the most freeing medium. And fibre art with its free-wheeling combination of paint, ink, photo transfers, collage, natural and synthetics, ribbons, beads and all manner of found objects – the whole held together by a needle and thread – is what really makes her heart
sing.
