Branching Form

This work continues an ongoing exploration of branching structures, suspended forms and network-like systems that move between references to the organic world and more psychological states of connection, containment and instability. The linear red forms emerged intuitively during the painting process and began to suggest root systems, nerves, marine growth or vascular structures suspended within shifting atmospheric space.

The work is ipart of an ongoing exploration of nets, threads and interconnected forms, while also drawing on observations of coastal vegetation, estuarine environments and natural systems that spread, divide and reconnect. The layered washes and drips allow the image to remain fluid and unresolved, moving between abstraction and suggestion rather than settling into a fixed image.

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Amanda Robins is an Australian painter whose work explores psychological and emotional states through abstract oil paintings and works on paper. Her practice is driven by an ongoing interest in painting as a way of investigating inner experience and the possibilities of materials like oil paint and watercolour.

Working intuitively in the studio, Robins experiments with colour, gesture and form, allowing the process of painting to unfold through exploration and play. The studio remains a space of curiosity and discovery, where ideas emerge through the physical act of making.

Robins studied painting and drawing at Monash University, the Victorian College of the Arts and the College of Fine Art, UNSW. She has taught painting and drawing at several tertiary institutions in Australia and was Head of Painting and Drawing at the South Australian School of Art in Adelaide from 2006 to 2009.

Alongside her studio practice, she works as a psychotherapist in private practice, working with people with a history of attachment trauma
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Website: amandarobinsart.com