Robert Snikkar

Bio - Rob Snikkar

I am a self-taught artist working mainly with oils. I also paint in watercolour, draw and create mobile sculptures.

I have been influenced by Kupka, Kandinsky, Brooker, Russolo and others and have made an extensive study of representing music.

Currently I'm creating paintings and mobile sculptures that represent music. I plan to also create installations with image, mobile sculpture, light and music.

I am also interested in images representing non-sexualized femininity and political protest art.

Artist's statement

Music and visual art are languages that touch our innate aesthetic.
So many feelings and concepts are shared by these arts; composition, motif, balance, harmony, tension, discord, tone, key, movement, rhythm, rest, foreground, background, depth....

But how to...

- represent music through painting and sculpture? Not to simply transcribe music into notation such as sheet music.
- capture the sound space, tonality, rhythm, and feel of music visually?
- compose visual works that evoke the same emotive responses as music?
- represent a particular piece or style of music?
- paint the voice of Miles Davis' muted horn, a minor key, a symphony, the timbre of Chet Baker's quaver...

Self-taught