by Robin Brooks | Aug 12, 2026 | News and Events, Uncategorized
Mark your calendars! This September, Charlotte Agell and I will be showing new work in acrylic painting, collage, ink, and pastel in in the Morrell Meeting Room at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine. How did this come about? Last summer, Charlotte invited me...
by Robin Brooks | Apr 11, 2026 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning
The Grand, collage on paper, 18″ x 12″, 2026 I am a thinking artist who paints abstractly What does it mean to be a thinking artist who paints abstractly? When I use the term “abstract” I am talking about art that doesn’t directly...
by Robin Brooks | Mar 3, 2026 | News and Events, Tai Chi with Robin, Teaching and Learning
Lines from Life 3, acrylic on canvas paper, 18 x 18″, 2026 Light and art–learning to see As one winter month rolls into the next and the full moon shines once again, I find myself in the studio. Currently I am working through the fifth exercise of the...
by Robin Brooks | Sep 28, 2024 | News and Events, Teaching and Learning
Playing with Abstraction: Nocturne Playing with abstraction, or simplifying form, has been the dominant mode of 20th century art, and in truth it is the way I see. I don’t see things in freeze frame like a photograph. But releasing the need for imagery is...
