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"my work is about the everyday things. Things that are around you, things that you see or hear, for instance on the radio or in the media or objects from around my home. They are rearranged in paintings that deal with issues or place. Sometimes remembered sometimes observed. The elements of colour, mood, codes and symbols are fractured in compositional arrangements often worked and reworked. Mark making and the act of painting being important. I like hiding things in my work, often over painting the written word, symbols or obscuring images that I ought not to show."
The paintings are about modern contemporary culture and social, political and cultural influences.

Press Release - Agora Gallery New York

The works of British artist Paul Robinson transform the banal environs of still-lives and interiors into enticing images created in a style that recalls the painterly inventions of Abstract Expressionists. Symbolic images resonate as vessels of discourse with connotations beyond the superficial. Robinson presents his audience with a visual puzzle, space is flattened, and objects and surrounding elements are given the same treatment and authority. His images are playful and loosely painted, joyous pastels and hearty reds are offset with areas of black. Viewing Robinsons paintings is an act of discovery; from his configurations everyday objects, such as a chair, plant, wineglass or bathtub, come forth from the schematic of shapes and color. Robinson studied Fine Art at Sunderland Polytechnic and went on to earn a Postgraduate Certificate of Education to pursue a career in teaching. Having worked previously as an illustrator, Graphic designer and industrial printer, Robinson chose to concentrate on his fine arts career. Robinson established the contemporary art gallery Artshed Ware Ltd. in 2003, acting as director, while continuing his work as an artist.