Robin Bateman Sturis

Hello. I'm a mixed media abstract expressionist painter, born in Wisconsin and currently located in Central Tennessee, USA. Thank you for your interest! I hope you enjoy my portfolio.

Art is a sanctuary for me. I grew up in a house of unexpected, explosive anger. Memories of that time are woven through with confusion, chaos, and fear. Yet I was always left to be myself when I created, free from the pressure of perpetually monitoring the mood of the house and the pressure to be somehow other than I was. When I created I was never too much, always enough. I grew up and left that house, but art has remained an essential practice for balance and clarity.

In my work I bring understanding to these early experiences by freely exploring light and darkness, layers of meaning, tensions of interconnection, mystery and ambiguity. Liminal spaces such as dusk and dawn, the edges of forest and field, land and sea seem to me to be metaphors for my own inner depths. These are things that are not wholly one thing or the other but a combination where divisions blur and become fluid.

I invite you, the viewer, to come closer, to look deeper, to consider what lies below the surface and see what you see, what you feel, what meaning arises for you...

MS Clinical Mental Health Counseling. 2012 University of Southern Maine.

Post-graduate Work in Art, 1993-1995. Arizona State University.

BFA, 1982. University of Wisconsin.

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Community Engagement, AIM October, 2020

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Biden/Harris 2020

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1000 WordsArtGroup.com April, 2020

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Black and White Show December
Cookeville Art Studio and Gallery, Cookeville, TN 2019

Painting the Feminine Art Exhibition. 2018

Durham Art Association shows changing three times annually. New England Center, University of New Hampshire. 1995-2000.

Families First The Children's Museum of Portsmouth, NH. 2000

Seacoast Art Association. Drake Farm, North Hampton, NH. 1996

Hoffman Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ. 1993-1994