Nancy E. Robinson: Artitst's Statement

Nancy Robinson: Artist's Statement
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I call the current paintings I'm working on "psychological portraits". The"people" in the psychological portraits are icons representing personal events from my life.

Rather than illustrate my stories in confessional detail, I invent icons to represent what happened to me. A lot of these "events" exist only in my mind. In my paintings, bodies are anatomically distorted, hair and pustules sprout, and daily life is a surrealistic nightmare.

My most recent work explores the theme of "The Thing That Won't Go Away". This "Thing" could be a person, an obsession, a bad habit, a pimple, unwanted hair, or a misplaced appetite.

In these works I'm exploring the fine line between genius and madness, dating and stalking, passion and perversion, pleasure and pain, creation and destruction, beauty and ugliness, etc.

Although my work begins with personal experiences, it's ultimately about the drama, passion and mystery of the human condition.

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