Roberta’s paintings are inspired by her experiences and observations, most recently by her daily walks and exploration of the South Downs accompanied by her faithful disobedient dog, Pablo. She explores our connection with nature, our relationship with animals and what they reflect of ourselves.

Working from sketches, memory and iPhone photos, Roberta’s light, fluid line conveys a vitality of the moment witnessed. Her ink works particularly come from a need to work spontaneously, intuitively and playfully.

The hawthorn tree paintings are inspired by the forces of time and weather on the landscape. Roberta expresses the dramatic shapes of the trees and how the harsh wind coming up from the sea directs their growth and shape. Elemental energy materialised into form.

Her playful humour is most obvious in the dog paintings, as they depict the darker/wilder side of nature. The shadows allude to subtler interior realities. The soppy domesticated dog can’t escape his inherited instinct to hunt and kill.
 

EDUCATION

• 1990-1993 Goldsmith College BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art History

• 1998-1990 Camberwell College Art Foundation

EXHIBITIONS

• 2021 Spring Show Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2017 Ashdown Gallery, Ashdown, W Sussex

• 1999 Love, Religion and Explosives, St Margaret's Church, Norwich

• 1998 The Sublime, The Axiom, Cheltenham

• 1997 Norie Toch Studios, Gullane, Scotland

• 1997 Touring Show, Peacock Artspace Gallery, Aberdeen

• 1996 102nd Annual exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

• 1996 Vertical Axis, The Castle Climbing Centre, London

• 1995 Springpoint Art Auction

• 1994 Candid Gallery, London