Lorna Robertson

My name is Lorna Robertson (b.1986 Aberdeen), I am based in East London, working in oil paint. The key themes of my practice are intimate portraits of people and objects. I work mainly figuratively, with some still life, working from people posed in my studio, or small arrangements of objects and plants. My processes in the studio, combine an interest in the subjects with formal questions. A lot of my work is driven by questions of colour, space, shape and distorting those things, in an ongoing project of balancing form and tone, that capture the character of a person or object.

After graduating I worked as part of the art and design collective Kith Kin, going on to work in the exhibition production team at the Tate gallery. Alongside my painting, I now work at the Getty Images Photography Archive and Gallery, where I produce their limited edition and signed fine art prints from their archival photographic collection.

I live in Hackney in East London, in a warehouse studio (in a converted ex-factory building from the 1990s).Here is where I paint and run a small business producing and selling limited edition fine art prints.

I studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London) and History of Art and Photography at Birkbeck University of London.

My recent work has been exhibited in London group shows. Including the ‘Stages of Self’ portrait exhibition at Conway Hall. And ‘Punch: an exhibition of five women artist’ at The Hive in Dalston.