In the pipeline are works in progress, works finished and waiting for a posting, and finished works that may be painted over, destroyed or repurposed. Who knows! These 5 works are the result of re-working original artworks. Begun in 2022 or earlier, they have now been completed in 2023.
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Staying Calm
My life has generally always been and still is, a bit…. chaotic. I find solace making these meditative works. They are like a song, like poetry and they have a calming effect. I chill out into another place.
Sometimes I listen to an audio book, sometimes music, but very often, I listen to the outside bush and bird noises.
2022 has seen me revisiting old ideas and old works on which I build new ideas and new works.

oil on canvas 122 x 61 cm

Renamed After Image

Renamed Sitting in the Morning Sun

pastel, gouache, charcoal on Hahnemuhle paper 80 x 120 cm
Worked over.

acrylic and Sennelier ink on canvas 30 x 40 cm
Renamed Wordless Silence
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Covid comforts. I worked on small mixed media works during the 2021 lockdowns and on the occasional large work (some still in progress).
Stormy Weather series
Each of the small works has a torn edge and is float mounted with a dark timber frame. the two larger works are float mounted with a limed timber frame. All are mixed media on Hahnemuhle paper. Unless otherwise indicated, all are for sale.








Wangaratta Watercolours
Out of the storm and into the calm.
A very short escape to the outskirts of Wangaratta on the Ovens River in Victoria resulted in some small watercolours painted en plein air. All are WN watercolour and graphite on Magnani paper and all are float mounted and framed with thin dark timber, with the exception of “Unsettled Landscape”, which has a limed timber frame. All are for sale.
Peachy Beachy works
Randomly chosen and reworked. Each is gouache and Sennelier ink on paper and each measures 13 x 18 cm. Each is float mounted and framed with a limed timber frame.
As the year moved on, my work got calmer.



Postcards from the Beach
All of these works are float mounted and framed in a dark grey timber frame. They work well as a set but could be displayed separately. They were all started one long weekend at Greenwell Point on NSW south coast and finished in 2021 in my studio. They are pastel and gouache on Khadi paper. Each work measures 11 x 15 cm.




Finally, back to the Gymea Lily
The Gymea Lily is a magnificent, majestic primeval flower that towers above the ground and is found mostly on the east coast of NSW, especially around Sydney. It has sword-like leaves more than 1 metre long and it grows a flower spike up to 6 metres high. They are beautiful!
I tied this lily to an easel with its stem dipping into a bucket of water, and over 3 weeks, I drew it. I was keen to incorporate the slow opening of the flower over time and to capture that within one drawing. That first drawing traces the slow changes that the lily was starting to go through.
This work is framed with a generous sized neutral mount and a plain matte black frame. Total dimensions are 140 x 106 cm.

Then, as time went on, another work was created. This watercolour is float mounted and box framed in a dark red /brown timber frame.
Finally, to end the year, this watercolour of the lily was created with gusto. Good bye 2021!
Breathing quietly
Another Covid year sees me calmly, slowly, picking through stuff trying to toss some, revitalise some and create some newies.



Earth Matters
Although the sounds, smells, textures and views of the mountain behind me are constant sources of inspiration, the recent catastrophes of drought, floods, bushfires and Covid, have provided fodder for much of my current work. The creation of something of beauty, calm and optimism, are possibly my emotional diversions as I explore the sad, fragile and terrible beauty of our world.
My pictures have their roots in the real world, but are by no means images in the conventional sense. I don’t copy my subjects, I interpret them. Sometimes the materiality of my medium takes a dominant role and I become engrossed in its unique qualities.
Using acrylic and oil paints, collage and mixed media, I create rapidly at first, keeping up with my thoughts. Then I let the work rest for an hour, a day, a year or a decade, as if it needs an incubation period. I eventually re-see what has been created and finish the work.
I revisit many ideas, resulting in the continuous presence of common, sometimes tenuous, threads that mirror my life and experiences.
I work from my immediate responses to both tangible and intangible subjects like bushfire, illness, sunshine, quiet, uncertainty and blend them with memory. The list goes on and so my work evolves that way.
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2021 begins
Happy New Year so far!
“Views of a Summer on Edge” SOLD while a finalist at the Sunshine Coast Art Prize at Caloundra Regional Art Gallery.

“The Burning” SOLD while on display on the online gallery Bluethumb. www.bluethumb.com.au/robyn-kinsela

Still 2020
While 2020 has been a bit still, a bit quiet, many of us are still beavering away, keeping occupied, keeping safe.

Mixed media on 8 10x10cm canvases
10 x 100 cm
Finalist: Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery 2020
SOLD

Mixed media on 5 10x10cm canvases
10 x 60 cm
Finalist: Gosford Art Prize 2020

mixed media and collage on canvas
91 x 122 cm
Finalist: Fisher’s Ghost Contemporary Art Award 2020

mixed media on board
13 x 23 cm

mixed media on board
13 x 23 cm SOLD

mixed media on board
13 x 23 cm

Oil and acrylic on canvas
91 x 120cm
2020 and onwards
So, now I am revisiting works from which I will pick up threads to develop new works.
I loved, and still do, love these.

mixed media on canvas
100 x 75 cm
SOLD

Mixed media on canvas
73 x 122 cm
SOLD

Wooden stretcher wedges on gator board
56 x 46 and 56 x 56 cm
SOLD

Mixed media on Khadi paper on Arches paper
155 x 110 cm

graphite on Arches paper
100 x 230 cm
Finalist: 33rd Alice Prize, Alice Springs (2004)

oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 60 cm SOLD

acrylic and oil on canvas
120 x 60 cm SOLD

mixed media on canvases
73 x 120 cm

240 x 150cm
acrylic on canvas
SOLD
Finalist: Fisher’s Ghost Open, Campbelltown City Arts Centre 2012

pastel on Whatmans paper
56 x 76 cm
SOLD

oil on canvas
91 x 138 cm
SOLD
Finalist: Fisher’s Ghost Open, Campbelltown City Arts Centre 2013

acrylic on canvas
81 x 162 cm
SOLD

oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 240 cm
SOLD
Finalist: Fisher’s Ghost Open, Campbelltown City Arts Centre 2011

graphite and shellac on paper
56 x 76 cm
SOLD

Graphite and shellac on paper
56 x 76 cm
SOLD
Highly Commended: Lyn McCrea Drawing Award, Noosa Art Gallery, 2016

oil on canvas
110 x 80 cm
SOLD
2020 and upwards
We seem to be heading for further lock down restrictions.
Hello studio!
News since I last posted includes my selection as a finalist in the Stanthorpe Art Prize. Due to Covid, this exhibition has been postponed until February 2021!!! Quite a few exhibitions have been cancelled, postponed or gone to online only. Many have thoughtfully waived or reduced their entry fees.
So, here are images of works that represent what I have been, and am, up to at the moment.

charcoal and pastel on Hahnemuhle paper
122 x 80 cm

Mixed media collage and oil stick on canvas
91 x 122 cm

Watercolour on Hahnemuhle paper on canvas
102 x 76 cm

Charcoal, pastel and gesso on Hahnemuhle paper
122 x 80 cm

Charcoal and pastel on paper, scratched.
98 x 66 cm

Graphite on paper, collage, woven paper.
54 x 84 cm

Pastel, graphite and collage on paper
72 x 46 cm

Mixed media on canvas
50 x 50 cm

Mixed media on canvas
50 x 50 cm

Mixed media on canvas
50 x 50 cm

Acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 cm SOLD

Oil and oil stick on canvas
91 x 122 cm

Acrylic and ink on canvas
30 x 40 cm

oil on canvas
61 x 76 cm

Watercolour on BFK Rives paper on canvas
45 x 34 cm

Watercolour on BFK Rives paper on canvas
45 x 34 cm
Finalist: Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival, 2020

oil on canvas
182 x 91 cm
Finalist: Calleen Art Prize, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, 2020

oil and acrylic on paper on canvas
76 x 76 cm
SOLD
I am not so much interested in the subject as such, but rather what the subject can do for me as a vehicle of expression. The windy landscape is not about landscape or wind, but about uncertainty and immediacy, rawness and exposure, and the colours are accordingly chosen, maybe, to contradict all that!
I am pleased to have had this work (below) selected as a finalist in the Stanthorpe Art Prize.

oil and acrylic on canvas
61 x 51 cm
I work from my immediate responses, both tangible and intangible. I was thinking about my brother whose land in northern NSW was engulfed by bush fire earlier this year. My approach with the paint was rapid at first, as were my thoughts.
I often work in series and this, being no exception, is a follow up from an earlier one which I needed to leave for fear of overworking it. Most often, I need a sort of incubation period, after which I return to the work to assess it for changes or corrections. I was desperate to keep the freshness so I quickly photographed and varnished it to avoid any “tidying up” that I am so often succumb to.
My brother is a proud keeper of the land, and I knew that he would see this as part of its evolution. And with that, a new beauty would emerge.
December January February News
What a summer!
Bushfires, smoke, more bushfires, more smoke.
Packing, unpacking, repacking, unpacking.
Rain, floods, more rain.
Finally getting on track a bit….
Pre-bushfire works, below, are in the summer exhibition at the Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral.

acrylic and oil on canvas
91 x 91 cm

Remembered Walk SOLD Burnt Out SOLD
I am pleased to announce that I have been selected as a finalist for the 2020 John Villiers Outback Art Prize at the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, Queensland (6 March to 8 May).

acrylic and oil on canvas
61 x 76 cm

These 3 works are part of the 20(2020) exhibition at TACIT Galleries in Collingwood, Melbourne which celebrates the Gallery’s 20th anniversary!
Artists who have shown with TACIT were invited to show up to 3 works each measuring 20 x 20 inches (52 x 52 cm). Should be interesting.
Here are my 3 works which have resulted by the summer we should not have had. My thoughts and therefore my work this year, since December, have been underscored by bush fires, evacuations, smoke and many friends’ losses, stresses and survival.

mixed media and collage on canvases
50 x 50 cm each
The recent bush fire season and its ramifications keep creeping into my work at the moment:

oil on canvas
61 x 61 cm
REPAINTED

mixed media and collage
10 x 10 cm canvases
More …… Views from a Summer on Edge

Mixed media and collage
9 10 x 10 cm canvases
My pictures have their roots in the real world, but are by no means images in the conventional sense. I don’t copy my subjects but interpret them. Sound, smell and touch play an important role.
Using collage and mixed media, I create rapidly at first, keeping up with my thoughts. Then I let the work rest for an hour, a day, a year or a decade, as if it needs an incubation period. I then re-see what has been created and finish the work.
“I work from memory of 10 minutes ago and 50 years ago”. (David Hockney)

acrylic, pastel, eggshells and collage on paper on canvas
36 x 28 cm