Robert Mcpartland

In a world with A.I., I believe that paint and the human spirit can make the ordinary extraordinary in a meaningful way. I work in the still life painting tradition from brief, often precarious, arrangements of small, neutral or insignificant subject matter. I use observation, intuition, relationship, scale and metaphor to create a sense of both clarity and mystery and give form to my sensibility. I regard objects as concentrated space, process and phenomena and strive to create visual meditations that are layered, poetic and stop time. I draw on my interests outside art for inspiration - mainly music, yoga, meditation and Eastern thought, mainly Tao and Zen. I am particularly drawn to the increasing connections between Buddhist related thought and aspects of contemporary science.

Goldsmiths college, London.
Ravensbourne college of art & design.
Middlesbrough college of art.

2024 Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2024 British Art Fair with Flying Colours Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, London
2023 Cardiff University Business & Technology Centre.
2023 Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition, Bristol.
2023 "Tranquility" group show still life paintings, Gallery Holt. Norfolk
2022. Christmas Group Show. Spring Gallery Cheltenham
2022 Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition. Bristol.
2022 Spring Gallery Cheltenham, with Stephanie Tuckwell
2021 John Moores Painting Prize exhibition. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2021 Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London with Flying Colours Gallery.
2021 "Monochrome" group show, Gallery 57, Arundel, East Sussex. UK
One man show - Gallery 57 Arundel, West Sussex, March 2021
Group show - ArtCatto, Loulie, Algarve, Portugal
"Elements: air water" - group show Gallery 57, Arundel, West Sussex, 29 Feb.- 9th May 2020
Joint show of paintings with my partner Stephanie Tuckwell. Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff. May 18th - June 1st 2019
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries London 5-17 March 2019
Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff. Nov. 2016
Royal West of England Open, Oct 2016
Jackson's Open Art Prize finalist May 2016
Show with Stephanie Tuckwell - Kooywood Ga...