The Southern Highlands Arts Festival Art Trail 2019 was, once again, an invigorating event for me!
My studio was open (Studio number 11) where you could view my work space, my tools of trade and the results of my mental and physical toil, some of which was for sale at studio prices.
This year I am in de-clutter mode, as difficult as it is, and there were some extraordinarily low prices for never-exhibited, demo and past glory works.
Studio holding up well. The foliage has grown though.
I am very happy to announce that I am a finalist in the Lyn McCrea Memorial Drawing Prize to be held at Noosa Regional Gallery from 1 November to 1 December 2019.
Moments of Silence (Night Noises, Summer Solstice) Graphite and collage on Arches paper 74x80cm
ALSO I have been selected to be a finalist in the NOW Contemporary Art Prize to be held at the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery from 5 October to 23 November 2019.
My Brother’s Country is on Fire Oil and acrylic on canvas 61x51cm
This is what I wrote when I finished the work earlier this year, and when Northern NSW was suffering major bushfires near Tabulum, among other places. Ironically, again this week, that same area is under bushfire attack again as are 60 something other areas in NSW and 67 in QLD, and it is only September!
“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.”
I am very happy to be included in the Pirtek Still Life Art Award with Black Pot with 2 Lemons at Bowral Art Gallery and judged by Janine Coddington.
It is always fun to paint still life subjects and to manipulate them to however you like in order to make an interesting composition.
Black Pot with 2 Lemons 2019 Acrylic on canvas 76 x 102 cm
The same black pot and (different) lemons have been the subject of previous paintings and no doubt will continue to inspire me in the future.
Ode to a Lemon SOLD 2015 Oil and oil stick on canvas 91 x 182 cm Finalist: 2015 Emsla Eutick Still Life Art Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Art GalleryOde to the Lemon II SOLD 2016 Acrylic and oil stick on canvas 61 x 61 cmOde to the Lemon III SOLD 2016 Acrylic and oil stick on canvas 46 x 92 cm Finalist: 2016 Hornsby Art Prize SOLD
My exhibition, Distractions, is opening at 6pm Wednesday 12 June, at the fabulous purpose built contemporary art gallery, FORM Studio and Gallery, Queanbeyan.
It would be lovely to see you there and to share some wine with you.
Opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Exhibition runs until 29 June 2019.
Please call in if you are in the hood. We would love to see you.
images of new work in the show:
I develop much of my work in the studio referencing my sketches,
photos and written descriptions which help
transport me to another place in my memory – back to places I have
travelled, known and experienced. It’s as if there is a delayed reaction
as if my thoughts need some sort of incubation time.
Recently I have turned to my immediate environment for subject matter where the sounds and my view of the mountain behind me are living, changing yet constant, sources of inspiration. I note the changes in light during different times of the day and the season. Dry crackle hum. The bush pings, the air stings, the kookaburras laugh.
Lush winter view of the foothills of Mount Gibraltar from my house
DISTRACTIONS is somewhat autobiographical where the paintings served as distractions to greater world events, and to more personal my-world events.
Nightfall, Full Moon, Morning 2018 – 19, oil on canvas 122 x 152cm UFPossum Light 2019 acrylic on canvas, 61 x 51cm $950 UFMy Brother’s Country is on Fire 2019 oil on canvas 61 x 51cm$950 UFParched 2019 acrylic on canvas 61 x 51cm $950 UFSticks and Stones 2019 acrylic on canvas 152 x 122cm UF SOLDLast Light 2019 oil on canvas 61 x 51cm $950 UFMountain Drought 2018 oil on linen 122 x 91cm $2600 Framed SOLDMorning Shadows 2019 oil on canvas 152 x 122cm UFKing’s Canyon Walk Remembered 2019 oil on canvas 30 x 30cm $600 Framed SOLDFowler’s Gap Creek Bed 2016 acrylic on board 31 x 30cm $600 FramedParched Evening 2019 oil on canvas 30 x 30cm $600 FramedBurnt Out 2019 oil on canvas 30 x 30cm $600 Framed SOLD Flowering Desert oil on board 30 x 30 cm SOLDLong Lazy Summer 2015-19 oil on canvas 170 x 240 $6500 UF SOLDLooking Back up the Gib 2018-19 oil on canvas 81 x81cm $1650 UF SOLDBush Backyard 2018-19 oil on canvas 122 x 76cm $2300 Framed SOLD
It is with great pleasure that I announce that my painting. “Rainy Sunday” was the WINNER of this year’s Wingecarribee Landscape Prize at Bowral Art Gallery. Many thanks to all the BDAS organisers and to Kerry McInnes, this year’s judge. Congratulations to all the other award recipients. It was a tough field so I feel grateful.
Rainy Sunday
2019 oil on canvas 61 x 51cm
Judge’s comments: “Deceptively simple and surprisingly evocative of the movement and feeling of rain. Robyn has, with angled strokes and a limited palette, conveyed to us the sensibility of a languid Sunday looking out into a wet landscape. The darker tones in the descending marks not only suggest falling liquid but also serve to ground the painting into what could be an interior, and if so, into a possibility – into a story. this is a wondrous and masterful work.”
Thank you everyone who visited my studio during the Art Studio Trail. It is always a pleasure to meet new and interesting folk and to catch up with old friends and acquaintances.
The work that I had on display ranged from never exhibited, demonstration, old pre-loved to current new work. As I am not with a gallery at the moment, my work does not include commission or GST.
Please contact me for any enquiries.
robynkinselaart@gmail.com
Currently I am a finalist in the 2018 Fisher’s Ghost Open Art Award , the Fisher’s Ghost Contemporary Art Award and the 2018 Blacktown City Art Prize.
Nightfall-Full Moon-Morning
oil on canvas 122 x 152 cm
FINALIST Fisher’s Ghost OpenMountain Drought oil on canvas 122 x 91 cm FINALIST Fisher’s Ghost ContemporaryA Floating Moment in Space
oil on canvas 76 x 61 cm
FINALIST Blacktown City Art Prize
SOLD
Recently I was awarded first prize in the Kangaroo Valley Inaugural Art Award
Rain is Setting In
oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm
WINNER Kangaroo Valley Inaugural Art Prize
SOLD
Storm Approaching
oil on canvas 122 x 91 cm
FINALIST Kangaroo Valley Inaugural Art Prize
SOLD
So I am looking at subject matter closer to home with my work this year – the kitchen- in this case.
A Fleeting Moment in Space has been shortlisted for the important Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize which opens at 6pm Thursday 17 May at The Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Brighton Town Hall.
Exhibition hours are Wednesday – Friday 11am – 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 1pm – 5pm and continues to 8 June.
I hope you can get there.
A Floating Moment in Space (oil on canvas 76 x 61 cm)
I am very pleased to be shortlisted for the Wyndham Art Prize. The exhibition dates are 30 March to 11 June, and the opening is on the 29 March from 6.30 to 8.30pm.
Please feel free to invite your friends and family.
“It is our premier event at the WYNDHAM ART GALLERY and we make a splash so come along and enjoy.”
Easter Afternoon, Fowler’s Gap (60 x 60cm acrylic on canvas) was painted as part of a series of works that I began, and continue to create, referencing and inspired by my artist residency at the UNSW Research Station in the arid desert zone of Fowler’s Gap, 120 km north of Broken Hill, NSW.
Sorry I’m Late is a great little cafe in Brunswick that has just recently opened. Address is 2a/10 Breese Street, parallel to Sydney Road off Hope Street.
Unlike a lot of Melbourne cafes, Sorry I’m Late has colour and a different vibe. Great music, fantastic coffee, wacky cards and seriously good abstract paintings by me from the last 10 years or so at seriously negotiable prices.
Oh, and there is food and can I mention again, great coffee!!
ARTWORKS CURRENTLY AT Sorry I’m Late
Paintings by Robyn Kinsela are on show for viewing, buying or simply enjoying.
Looking for Songlines
mixed media on 49 canvases
76x76cm
$2000 framed
Finalist in Goulburn Regional Gallery Open Art PrizeSnakes and Rivers
oil on 40 canvases
123x77cm
$2500 framed
not previously exhibited SOLDWinton Beach Breakers
acrylic on canvas
18x18cm
$350 framed SOLDWinton Beach Tracks
acrylic on canvas
18x18cm
$350 framedTactile Landscape (Diptych)
mixed media on canvases
73x120cm
$1600 framedSOLDThe Land the Earth the Soul I
acrylic on canvas
90x90cm
$800 unframed
not previously exhibitedThe Land the Earth the Soul II
acrylic on canvas
90x60cm
$600 unframed
not previously exhibitedSOLDMapping
acrylic on canvas
100x100cm
$1600 unframedUnfinished History Iacrylic on canvas
81x81cm
$900 unframed
not previously exhibitedUnfinished History IIacrylic on canvas
81x81cm
no previously exhibited SOLDOde to a Lemon oil on canvas 91x182cm Finalist in the Emsla Still Life Award SOLDOde to the Lemon I acrylic and oilstick on canvas 46x92cm Finalist in the Hornsby Art Award SOLDOde to the Lemon II acrylic and oilstick on canvas 61x61cmBlue and Yellow Still Life
acrylic on canvas
51x51cm
$800 unframed
Cover design for Southern Highlands Arts FestivalNorth Coast Garden
acrylic on canvas
30x30cm
$500 framedPiper’s Hill, Minnie Water
acrylic on canvas
30x30cm
$500 framedSOLDSummer
acrylic on canvas
30x30cm
$500 framedSOLDSand Dune, Wolli River
acrylic on board
31×30.5cm
$500 framedPiper’s Hill, Minnie Water II
acrylic on board
30.5x31cm
$500 framedBeach House Garden
oil and acrylic on canvas
30x30cm
$500 framedWinton Beach 2020
oil on canvas
180x90cm
$2000 unframed
Finalist in NOW at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
I do not copy my subject but interpret it as I feel at the time of painting. Drawing, memory and imagination, and using colours and materials that I feel like using, keep me absorbed in the whole process. Sometimes the resulting work comes like a delayed reaction as if my work needs an incubation period – it needs to mature or un-mature.
I know that juggling life and art has its costs and rewards.
There you go….today’s statement maybe it will be different tomorrow!
SOLDArid Desert Zone, Fowler’s Gap 2017 acrylic on canvas 160 x 230cm Finalist: 2017 Fisher’s Ghost OpenSOLDThe High Plains 2017
mixed media on paper on canvas 51×50.5cmFowler’s Gap group 2016-17
Mixed media on canvases and boards
30 x 30cm each 3 SOLDFowler’s Gap group 2016-17
mixed media on canvases and boards 30 x 30cm eachSOLDEaster Afternoon, Fowler’s Gap 2016
acrylic on canvas 61x61cm Finalist: 2016 Goulburn Regional Gallery Art Award & 2016 Heyson Landscape PrizeFollowing the River 2017
acrylic on canvas 46x46cmErnabella 2016-17
acrylic and collage on canvas 50x50cmSOLDAutumn Landscape 2017
oil on canvas 61x51cmBleached Bush Light 2015
oil on canvas 71x56cmSeptember 2017
oil on canvas 61x51cmTrees 2016-17
oil and acrylic on canvases 30x30cm each ALL SOLDWinter Landscape 2016 acrylic on canvas 75x100cm Finalist: Muswellbrook Regional Gallery Art AwardWinter View (Mittagong) 2017
acrylic on canvas 75x100cmCampsite at Sand Dune 2017 oil on canvas 61x61cmSOLDSheltered Place 2017
acrylic on canvas 46x46cm SOLDSOLDStepping through to the Lookout 2017
acrylic on colorfix paper on canvas 40x30cmCool Mountain Summer I, II & III 2015
acrylic on canvases 25x25cm eachSOLDThe Other Side of Summer, Healesville I – IX
2016
acrylic on canvases 18x18cm each Finalist: 2017 Bayside Acquisitive Art Award Beach group (Minnie Water) 2016-17
oil and acrylic on canvases 30x30cm eachNor-Westerly, Fowler’s Gap 2016
acrylic and charcoal on Hahnemuhle paper 80x120cm
Finalist: 2016 Fisher’s Ghost DrawingRoad to Khancoban 2016
acrylic on colorfix paper 47x67cm
Finalist: 2016 Parliament House Plein Air Art AwardCool High Country 2016
oil on canvas 41x41cm SOLDFire Trail I 2016
mixed media on Arches Watercolour paper 57x76cm SOLDFire Trail II 2016
mixed media on Arches watercolour paper 57x76cmShoalhaven Summer 2015
oil on canvas 170x240cm