Dina Robinson

I live and work from my home studio on the South West coast of the Isle of Wight, UK. After taking early retirement in 2005 I had the opportunity to fulfil a lifelong ambition to study art.  I obtained a BTEC National Diploma in Art & Design at Newport IW and graduated in 2012 with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art at Northbrook in Worthing West Sussex (now called Greater Brighton Met).

My art is a visual diary of an ordinary life. I like to work alone exploring the unknown by reacting to the things around me, listening to fragments of conversations, music, repeating that sharp angle that I glimpse out of the corner of my eye.  I explore different ways to compose visual ‘shorthand’ of all that I see and feel.  My work is abstract and automatic processes are an important part of my practice.

I am attracted to nature, enthralled by its textures, lines and shapes - the simple and the complex.  My visual language initially originates from a spontaneous physical involvement with the medium and surface combined with symbols, memories and learned behaviours.  The marks I make mimic aspects of a quiet rural existence pitched against the backdrop of a fast modern techno-crazy society that impact on our everyday lives.  Each work is a pocket-history of a moment in time, my thoughts, actions and re-actions to sound and vision.