Lisa V Robinson

Profile/CV

Lisa V Robinson is an emerging contemporary painter, currently based in Westgate Studios, Wakefield, Northern England. She studied BA Fine Art at Manchester School of Art, graduating with first class honours in 2008.  Since graduating from university, Lisa has proceeded to win the Joan Day Painting Bursary and more recently was short listed for the New Lights Art Prize. 

Working predominantly in oil on canvas, Lisa's practice explores and celebrates painting as an physical and sensual process. This has stemmed from an attraction to the sensuous nature of oil paint, in particular, the tactile sensation of applying gestural brushwork and observing the paint flow freely as watercolour down the canvas surface. A variety of sources influence her work, including; architecture, graffiti, music and nature. The resulting composition is rhythmic and vibrant; loops of colour, quickly executed brushstrokes, drips of diluted paint, all of which combine to animate the otherwise flat surface of the canvas. As the paintings are developed through intuition, spontaneity and chance, no end result can be preconceived, which presents an exciting challenge.

Website www.lisavrobinson.co.uk