Iain Robertson, Mega Jazzy. © the artist
St.Ives-based Scottish painter Iain Robertson is showing 50 new paintings to mark his own 50th birthday at Lemon Street Gallery in Truro.
If you want to see Robertson's colourful, expressionist but abstract paintings, you'll need to get moving because it closes this weekend - April 1 2006.
Iain Robertson, My Favourite Things. © the artist
One of the highlights of the show is the first public viewing of a multiple work, Mega-Jazzy, consisting of fifty 30 by 30 cm panels. Mega-Jazzy is an ongoing project, which began in 2001, to 'deconstruct process in the post-modern world'.
Robertson trained at Exeter College of Art in the late Seventies and is part of a growing community of artists in the south west who remain intrigued by the possibilities of paint.
Iain Robertson, Mega Jazzy III. © the artist
Though based in the south west, Robertson's name has been made in Europe. In the mid-Nineties, he was introduced to the European scene by Danish artist Peter Brandes.
Iain Robertson, Mega Jazzy. © the artist
Robertson subsequently showed with Galerie Moderne in Denmark, in the company of senior European artists like Asger Jorn, Karel Appel and Per Kirkeby. Iain continues to be represented by Galerie Moderne.
Iain Robertson, C.W. © the artist
In the late Nineties, Robertson was the first Scottish winner of the prestigeous New York Pollock-Krasner Award, which he followed with a Residency at Grizedale Forest in the Lake District in 1993. Many of the works in this show have never been exhibited the UK before.
