Robin Sewell – Light Water Rebellions

Robin creates worlds within his abstract works – universes even – that are rich with implied meanings and emotions. Making each painting is an act of exploration into the unknown, achieved with an array of singular machines and devices rather than traditional brushes. He invites the viewer to join him on his journeys of experimental discovery.

“The drive to go to my studio is less to make and manufacture than to engage a mental state where remarkable occurrences can happen. My drawings and paintings are, in some sense, underpinned by my subconscious that gathers notions and references from obscure places and puts them together in a way that my conscious mind couldn’t possibly have the intelligence or wherewithal to do.” – RS

Robin was born in 1951 in Yorkshire and educated in Leeds, then Cardiff and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He was a Senior Lecturer in BA Fine Art at Maidstone College and University of the Creative Arts in Canterbury between 1980-2012 and had studios in London and Umbria, Italy until moving to Wiltshire in 2016 where he now lives and works.

Since being in the West of England he has worked as a curator for the Wells Art Contemporary in the Bishops Palace and Wells Cathedral instigating and curating installations within the Cathedral and it’s grounds in 2019 and 27 installations in 2021. In June he recently exhibited at Andelli Art with his solo show – ARRIVALS (my subconscious used to confide but we are not that close now) and has shown all over this country and abroad. His paintings are in collections internationally.

Gallery opening times are 9-4pm Tuesdays to Saturdays and Frome Independent Market Sundays.