Your name: Robin Morgan
Your community: Evanston, IL
Your background as an artist: I've always been creative and prefer to spend my time making things. I hold a BA in Art History and have taken many painting workshops with some fabulous teachers, some well known, such as Michelle Dunaway, Georgia Mansur, and Clare Bowen. Others, like Jeff Krantz, are not so well known, but just as significant to my work. I also spend time studying artists who inspire me, such as Sargent, Durer, Dixon, Morisot, Rembrandt, Giorgione, Bosch, Sorolla, Monet, Richard Schmidt, Chris Green, the Luminists and the Hudson River School.
What inspires your work: Nature, wild spaces, and the feeling I get from being outside.
Your preferred medium: Currently, it's oil paint but I've also spent a lot of time working in black and white smithing, textile art, stained glass, and clay. I also draw, sketch and hand sew.
Your preferred subjects and why you're drawn to them: I am drawn to color, and textures of natural objects. I also do portrait work. Painting for me is demanding and one can never learn all there is needed to know to produce a work that communicates what one hopes to communicate. It is always the deep joy of being outside and the wonderful variety of natural things that inspires, excites and informs my work.
Is your work for sale, and how can someone contact you: Yes, and they can text me at 847-828-6312