Heather Robinson

Statement

Heather Robinson studied architectural design at Texas A&M University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which gave her a love of structure and a fascination with how people choose to decorate the spaces and things around them. Her paintings can be found in private collections throughout the US and abroad. Since 2007, she has been painting in her San Francisco studio.

My painting practice is an exploration of surface through pattern, color, and texture. I have an attraction to bright, colorful, decorated objects,  an orderly mind, a love for the grid and a strong schooling to mistrust the superficial. These contradictory urges come together in my paintings.

Each painting has multiple  layers of color ands pattern with each layer reveals a new level of space or strata . Starting with a piece of fabric at the base and adding elements both rigid and spontaneous, I build up a rich surface over time with contrasting components. The result is, in a sense, a representation of my mental state while creating - a push and pull between order and disorder, and space time. 

My series “Pattern Seeking” is about optimism in the face of evidence to the contrary. In an increasingly chaotic and uncertain time, I paint to evoke positive emotions, even if I’m not always feeling them myself. The repeating textile patterns that serve as my inspiration are meditative and soothing in their regularity, a reminder of threads winding through history and my tiny place in the world. Striving to create a harmonious whole. and a beautiful finished object, putting down colors and patterns that interact with and weave into each other in a satisfying way - this all affects me for the better, as I hope it affects the viewer.

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