Robynn Smith
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MEDIUMS: Acrylic | Drawing | Charcoal | Mixed Media | Oil | Pastel | Printmaking
SPECIALTY: ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Color ✔ Finding Your Artistic Voice
I am passionate about helping people explore technique, imagery, and content in their work. Image + Process = Content. With dozens of techniques under my belt and many years of teaching experience, I’m well-equipped to work with those interested in a wide range of media and approaches. Having taught at community colleges, universities, and private workshops, I understand how to meet people where they are. I love the give-and-take of critique and the “ah-ha” moments that come with deeper understanding. I enjoy introducing people to new media and ways of seeing, while also supporting them in developing their own unique paths.
My own work evolves from photography, collage, and drawing into monotypes, etchings, relief prints, and large mixed media paintings. With a strong foundation in drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture, and mixed media, I’m uniquely positioned to work with individuals at all levels and from diverse backgrounds.
Robynn’s EXPERTISE
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Specialty: ✔ Artistic Process & Mindset ✔ Color ✔ Finding Your Artistic Voice
Technical:
Composition & Color
Technique Demos
Teaching How to Self Critique
Providing Art Critiques
Studio Setup for Art Production
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~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Through pilgrimage to places of historical and psychological impact, I have collected a vast library of images that I use to travel between the present and the past, connecting the dots of humanity’s magnificent opportunities and repeated mistakes.
Contrasting images are used to create detailed comparisons of the wretched and the sublime, light and dark, nature and technology. Lines blur and connections are made. Profoundly spiritual observations are presented alongside the moral bankruptcy of war.
My work explores these ideas in a wide variety of media, through physical processes as well as through the use of specific imagery. The images combine with process to form the content. Through the processes of layered techniques, works reveal moments of beauty and horror. Embedded photographic processes help to focus and sharpen the impact of the imagery, A surprising visual language is created, one that reaches places of tender familiarity, shocking trauma, submerged memory and subconscious reality.
Artist Bio
Robynn Smith received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from San Jose State University. Robynn grew up in New York and for the past 40 years, has made Santa Cruz, California her home. She is an internationally exhibiting painter and printmaker and Professor Emerita, Monterey Peninsula College.
Robynn’s works combine many layers of information that combine to both reveal and obscure moments of beauty and horror. The tactile subtleties of carved and printed surfaces merge with embedded and transferred photographic processes which focus and sharpen the impact of the imagery. The resulting works create a surprising visual language that reaches places of tender familiarity, shocking trauma, submerged memory, and subconscious reality.
Robynn is the founder of the annual international event, Print Day in May, and Blue Mouse Studios in Aptos, California
Notable solo exhibitions include Monterey Museum of Art, Triton Museum of Art and Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. She has been represented in juried and invitational group shows on 5 continents. Recent residency fellowships include L’AiR Arts Paris, Islensk Grafik in Iceland and Zea Mays Printmaking in Massachusetts.
