MY NEW ONLINE STORE IS OPEN!

Eventually you will be able to purchase my originals, prints and even graphic design services directly from this website. If you missed picking up an original painting at a great price for Christmas, never fear I still have work available at Robin's Song Online Art Store.
When you purchase work from a local artist, you are purchasing a little bit of them... Consider the hours of time in practice and experimentation that came before the piece was created. Consider each brush stroke, created with loving thought and care. Consider each decision about colour and composition.

When you buy from a big box store, you may get a painting that matches your decor, but you are not getting something unique that has been made with loving care. When you buy from one of those places, you are not supporting your community, you are supporting the perpetuity of a corporation that is only concerned with the bottom line. It's about more than just price.

"Lucky" 12x12 inches, acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas, $150.
I love the time I spend teaching and working with others as they learn to paint. It is very fulfilling to me to be a part of other artist's journeys as they venture down their own personal paths of creativity. I worked on this little painting as a student painted a much larger version of the scene. Ironically, this is not from Niagara, but it is a photo that she took while in Australia. My student wanted to work on a larger painting to commemorate the special time she had there. Even though I have never been to that particular place, the time I spent working on it was great and I had the chance to show some techniques and ways to make her work stronger. It's really important to me that we honour and celebrate our own unique style of painting, not behave as photocopy machines producing work that looks exactly like someone else's style. Having a “gift” for painting or making art is a myth - it's because of an accumulation of small steps of progress in our own development as artists that we can thrive. We need to embrace the ways in which we are unique and how we personally create.

I would love to help you on your art journey - contact me for lessons.