John Robertshaw

Painting arose in me like a mountain spring.
Incident rain flowing from bedrock deep within.
At first, painting was a means to express ideas and insights on the workings of nature, a life-long abiding
interest that I've been able to pursue with a will
since retiring to rural Puerto Rico -- a wonderland
of nature if ever there was one.
But some of my ideas and insights were struggling
to take form. What is light? Color? A "shadow"?
How do air molecules behave? What is "gravity"?
What makes a mountain spring flow the way it does?
A million and one questions about just what makes nature tick. Putting my observations down on canvas
has drawn back a curtain and opened the window,
shedding a light not I think possible otherwise.
Painting has also been a deeply rewarding experience
in and of itself. I find that, in my meditations on nature
as well as in the making of a painting, it's enough to just ask the questions. Everything flows from there.
I hope that my work on canvas inspires this in you.
I want my paintings to take you beyond what you
already know. Nature is to embrace, not to explain.

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