Turning Air, High Ground

Influenced by time spent in mountainous environments, this work reflects the sensation of moving through open, elevated space. The landscape is not depicted directly but felt through rhythm and movement—lines that turn, drift, and rise. There is a lightness to the surface, a kind of quiet exuberance, as though the air itself is in motion. The painting holds a sense of wandering, of being immersed in a shifting field rather than observing it from a distance.

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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