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Or We Can Walk Through
Lightly, oil and 24k gold
leaf on aluminum panel,
16 x 26"2
That You’re Part of This
Place, oil and 24k gold
leaf on aluminum panel,
36 x 48"3
Going Back From Whence
We Came, oil and 24k
gold leaf on aluminum
panel, 36 x 48"4
The Light of Knowledge,
oil and copper leaf on
aluminum panel,
48 x 36"UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / BLUE RAIN GALLERY
1 0/ 29 -11/ 20 Santa Fe, NMW
hile realist portrait painter Robin
Jones has always gravitated toward
the arts, her dedication to painting began
after a different kind of quarantine many
years ago. For two weeks, Jones was trapped
at home during the aftermath of Hurricane
Ike while she was living in Houston. To
keep herself occupied, she picked up a
paintbrush and never looked back.
This experience has led to a successful
art career and a solo show with Blue Rain
Gallery titled One Thread: Preserving
What’s Precious, One Painting at a Time,
taken from a speech given by Chief Seattle,
a Suquamish and Duwamish chief on what
he called “the web of life.” “When you talk
about the web of life,” Jones says, “humans
are only one part of that web. Everything
is interconnected and everything we do
reverberates throughout the web. This is
one focus of my art, and it’s in keeping with
interconnectedness.”
Jones is an environmental and animal
rights activist, and often marries the two
in her art. “I use figurative painting as a
means to express issues surrounding
climate change and endangered species,”
she explains. “I like to focus on young
people [as my figures] because they will
inherit the planet, and they’re so vocal in
their climate activism.”
Jones was also a professional actor for
many years, so it’s no surprise that her
subject matter explores the many facets of
human expression. “I’ve spent my whole
life portraying human beings,” she says, “so
when I began seriously painting about 12
years ago, it was always important to convey
emotion and complexity in the human face.”
When Jones began her figurative paint-
ings, she depicted characters from plays
but her work evolved as her activism with
animals and climate grew. “It seeped into
my art more and more,” she adds. “Now
most of what I do is environmental-related
or just to showcase the beauty of the natural
world or a specific species, because it’s also
important to focus on the positive.”
Going Back From Whence We Came is
one such example of celebrating in posi-
tivity. A young girl in a pink bathing suitROBIN JONESOne Thread
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