This tribute exhibition for Robin Rogerson offers an opportunity for her many friends and admirers to gather amongst her artworks for a final time.
Robin made hundreds of lively sketches while on the road that were later collated into a book, Travels with My Sketchbook. These quickly observed sketches and paintings have a great fluidity, ‘looseness’ and confidence of line which was perhaps born of her early training in Chinese brush painting in Hong Kong in the late 1960s. Besides a ‘good eye’, she also had a lovely subtle use of colour which she applied to fabric painting as well as her more formal paintings.
Robin died last year. Apart from her role as a founder of Mahara, she has left an impressive legacy of work held in private, public, corporate and diplomatic collections around the world.
All framed and unframed artworks, silk scarves and a limited number of copies of Travels with My Sketchbook, are for sale, with all proceeds going towards future gallery programmes.