Interior Ground

This painting was inspired by my interest in foliage and organic forms. I was also inspired by vintage fairy tale illustrations.
I started with a strong Magenta coloured ground and worked over that with layers of green and teal. The surface is built through repeated layers of brushwork, allowing colour and form to accumulate gradually across the surface.

Working primarily in green and blue tones, the composition develops as a dense field rather than a single focal image. Marks are applied and reworked over time, creating shifts in depth, rhythm, and intensity.

The structure emerges through this process of layering and adjustment, holding together as a continuous surface rather than resolving 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