Wilderness Seascape & Landscape Painter
Robyn collier
CONTEMPORARY REALISM
Hi – I’m Robyn and it has been at least 40 years since I first began to paint – remaining my life’s passion. Art has blessed me with the gift of earning my living doing something I love. It has helped me appreciate the beauty in our world, both the macro and the micro.
I hope my paintings reflect the love I have for light and nature – in all its wonder.
While photographs and digital prints adorn many modern-day walls, nothing, I feel, can take the place of an artists skill and interpretation in paint. It is this element that makes original art so special.
Australian artist
Inspired by wilderness
Robyn has bush walked extensively over her 40 year career as a visual artist and still walks several times a week. Her real love is traveling to remote areas – wilderness subjects and areas of difficult access being her special niche. Studio work by definition, can be very limiting in its inspiration if time is not taken to absorb the energy of the natural world. Love of walking takes her to some very special and isolated places – most too long in distance to carry heavy painting gear – enjoying the interpretation of special moments that only a camera can capture..
Photography
The interplay of light and shadow or the unraveling of a complex pattern on water, the fleeting moment of a cliff turning purple in the late light, are all the type of moments difficult to capture convincingly without a camera at the ready. But it is the human element of re-composing the subject and the interpretation of the image in a new way that creates a painting out of a photograph. As an artist Robyn is invigorated by the challenge of the painting of more difficult and intimate subjects. However always mindful that it is a painting that she is creating she rarely relies on one photograph alone – which is the aid, not the end result.

underwater series
In recent months I have been concentrating on an underwater series – having taken up snorkeling and purchased an underwater camera. I have found this world to be fascinating, beautiful, and much like our world above. It has forests, wildlife, sand ripples, rocks and formations and colours that are breathtaking. That and the ancient trees of the cool rainforests are occupying a lot of my painting time at the moment.
Workshops
Robyn has had many articles published, judged numerous art shows over forty year painting career and travels throughout Australia to conduct workshops.


Artist in Residence
Robyn has been Artist in Residence or the guest of many island resorts in order to paint including: Lizard Island, Heron Island, Silky Oak Resorts in the Daintree, Coconut Beach Resort, Sails in the Desert Resort at Yulara, Hinchinbrook Island Resort, Cradle Mountain Lodge Resort. She has also painted at Lord Howe Island, Flinders Island and Maria Island.
Awards
1984-91
1984 1st Prize Landscape Penrith Show
1985 1st Prize any medium Penrith Show
1980’s 12 highly commended at various Penrith Shows
1987 Major award Blackheath Rhododendron Festival Art Show
1988 1st Prize Penrith Show
1989 1st Prize Blackheath Rhododendron Festival Art Show
1990 1st Prize Landscape Penrith Show
1991 1st Prize Landscape Penrith Show
1993-12
1990’s Three time finalist Australian Artist Magazine Art Challenge
2010 Four time finalist Australian Guild Realist Artists AAL Competition
2010 Commended Australian Guild Realist Artists AAL Competition
2010 1st Prize Australian Guild Realist Artists AAL Competition No 42. Seascapes Rivers and Lakes
2010 2012 1st Prize Australian Artist Magazine Seascapes Rivers and Lakes
2012 Commended Australian Guild Realist Artists AAL Competition
2012-15
2012 Ist Prize Australian Guild Realist Artists AAL Competition
2012 Packing room prize – Agra Gold medallion
2013 Royal Art Society Sydney
2013 Finalist Artist Magazine Challenge No 54
2014 Finalist AAL Competition four paintings AGRA
2015 Certificate of recognition Australian Guild Realist Artists
Published
Australian Artist Magazine Feb-March-April 2013 – three part series on ‘Aspects of Water’
Artists Palette – No 10,
Katoomba Fine Art, Colour Catalogue – 2011 exhibition
Katoomba Fine Art Colour Catalogue – 2014 exhibition
Practique des Arts – Quality French Magazine – Nov 2014.
Australian Artist Magazine – October 2015 (40 Years of Alla Prima Painting)
Australian Artist Magazine – November 2015 (Luminosity and Texture)
Creative Artist Magazine – November (Some Form of Addiction and the Kimberley Eucalypts)
Australian Artist Magazine 2017 – Special Feature – ‘Sharing an exploration on Canvas.’
Blue Mountains Life Magazine – December 2017. ‘The Lost Burragorang Valley’
Hard Cover Book – ‘ Paintings from Burragorang the Lost Valley’ 2017
Australian Artist Magazine – Creating an Adventurous Art Life – April 2019
Representation and Collections
Represented
Katoomba NSW
www.lostbeargallery.com.au
Gallery Beneath
Malloolooba QLD
www.gallerybeneath.com.au
Best Fine Art
Stirling WA
www.bestfineart.com
Morpeth Gallery
Morpeth NSW
www.morpethgallery.com
Collections
Sydney Water Sydney Ports
Barclays Bank Penrith City Council
P&O Resorts NSW Premiers Office – Neville Wran
Japanese Consul Societe Generale –French Bank
Prime Minister Haughey –Ireland P&O Australia
Collections
Cambridge University United Kingdom
Jenolan Caves Resort
Private & Corporate collections worldwide including Australia, Japan, Germany, United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom, Russia, France, London – and too many more to list.
Contact Robyn Collier
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