Take your mind for a walk.
There is a well taught method of creation roughly referred to as taking a pencil for a walk or taking a line for a walk. You close your...
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17th February 2023...
Continuously getting it wrong is a thing I love, it results in layers and textures that evolve subconsciously. Shaping the painting and allowing me to think free of constraints, design or planning. I listen with my heart to the marks I make….
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David Robertson
Feb 41 min read
A Winters Wood
A series of studies based around a photograph I took in the last snowfall. The early morning light gave the small woodland a golden,...
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David Robertson
Dec 22, 20232 min read
Understanding?
There are many ways I approach my work and it is constantly evolving. Much of what you have seen in this gallery is about me...
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David Robertson
Nov 30, 20231 min read
OF PASTURE AND EMOTION.
As a boy I was lucky enough to grow up surrounded by nature both rural and the very natural. From the woodlands and forests to farms,...
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David Robertson
Sep 16, 20231 min read
INTERPRETATION
UNFINSHED With a working title 'Last Morning of Summer'. How do we interpret an image, an idea of the thing we wish to depict? For me I...
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David Robertson
Jul 4, 20231 min read
Greeting cards and prints
I have been looking into this idea for a while but until now had not found the desired quality of print. The cards I will make available...
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David Robertson
Apr 19, 20231 min read
Learning
I began this painting in bitumen and white emulsion. It was a rather ordinary landscape with little emotion reflected back at me. While...
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David Robertson
Apr 6, 20231 min read
BITUMEN
A paint, oil based, industrial and more given to the outside, garden sheds, roofs and fences. It is along with white emulsion one of my...
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David Robertson
Mar 8, 20231 min read
Wordery
I am often, if not always asked about the text in my work, what the words say or mean, what is the purpose of it. Apart from the visible...
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David Robertson
Mar 5, 20231 min read
Almost
As you can see this very large canvas is nearly complete....the Buzzard needs more detail, then I will listen to the painting with my heart.
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David Robertson
Mar 4, 20231 min read
Yallery Brown (Lincolnshire Folklore)
Perhaps to begin with the most notable of my folklore discoveries while living in Lincolnshire. A boghat.....Tiddymun. I have an idea to...
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David Robertson
Mar 3, 20231 min read
Love this.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ROBERT FROST
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David Robertson
Mar 3, 20231 min read
Connection
I recently spent a few minutes standing upon the tombstone of Henry VIII. I was fascinated by the feeling of a perceived connection in...
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