Explosion of Mountains

This painting developed through an intuitive process of layering colour and gesture to evoke the shifting forms of a mountainous landscape. I was heavily influenced by my travels in the Swiss Alps and by the paintings of Swiss artist ferdinand Hodler who lived on the shores of Lake Geneva near Mont Blanc for most of his life. I enjoy the strong rhythms and layers in this painting and its probably the closest to a literal landscape.
Greens and blues build across the surface, suggesting terrain, movement and depth without resolving into a fixed image. The painting moves between abstraction and landscape, allowing the viewer to sense the energy and structure of mountains while the work remains open to interpretation.

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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