Networks and Threads

Watercolour on paper.

This work is part of a series using glad wrap and masking to create shape and texture with watercolour. I begin with a masked form which establishes the initial structure, after which the paint is left to move across the surface on its own, settling and absorbing into the paper in pools. Glad wrap is laid over the wet surface during drying, producing shifts in texture. Coloured pencil is then used to work back into the image, knocking back the original masked shape and introducing a sense of ambiguity.

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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