Lone Soldiers

I deeply relate to trees, almost as if they were people. They fascinate me, whether standing alone or in an orgy of entanglement. I constantly document them for my photographic archive. Some are stumbled upon when travelling, some encountered on a daily commute and others I obsessively seek out to help me express current thoughts. “Paul Robinson makes painting of trees and landscapes and mixes them up with the decorative patterns of wallpaper. The complexity of Robinson’s imagery and overlaying of pattern has been informed by the work of Robert Rauschenberg. Robinson paints a world, which joins Christopher Wool’s fabric paintings with a 1970’s Peter Phillips pop landscape. These images are reminiscence of dream sequences from