Flowers for Claudia Print

A native of the Southern United States, ROBIN REZENDE grew up in the Rocket City of Huntsville, Alabama, and has lived in places as diverse as Westwood, California, Destin, Florida, London, England and Belfast, Northern Ireland. A self-taught artist, Robin has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in the US, the UK, and Brasil. Robin references her encaustic paintings as 'remembrances of nature,' each one a fragmented memory of her time spent wandering the coastlines of the Emerald Isle, roaming the Dales of England, or wandering through the pine-coned forests of the Southern US. "The smell of the beeswax as it melts is what initially drew me to work in encaustic," Robin states of her love affair with the medium. "And then I became mesmerized by the consistency and motion of the beeswax as it melds with the wooden surface. Encaustic painting truly impacts all of the senses." Then she adds, "There is also my pure unadulterated love of honeybees themselves, to whom I'm very grateful for the beeswax. Honeybees make the world go 'round." Robin has studied extensively in the realms of higher consciousness and self-awareness. She has taken this training and coupled it with her strong artistic bent to develop artwork that uniquely blends spirituality with deep creative expression.