JONATHAN ROBERTSON
Title: High Shore Tea Break
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 12 x 16 inches. Signed
Born in 1947, Jonathan was trained at the Glasgow School of Art. He has taken part in Group Exhibitions in London, Moscow, Berlin and Scotland as well as at Richard Hagen Fine Art in Broadway. He has had one-man exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Automobile Club in Glasgow, Contemporary Fine Art Gallery in Eton and at the Lemon Street Gallery in Truro. His collectors include, Arthur Anderson & Co. Glasgow Art Gallery, Scottish Television and Edinburgh Hospital to name but a few.
"The paintings are so sensuous they seem to smell of sale and creosote, of soil, earth, diesel, coils of kippery rope, grass and apples. The encrustations and impastos of actuality go under glazes, get nacreous, become lovely surfaces. For Jonathan Robertson is a painter in love with paint itself. As a poet loves language, so is he stirred by vivid pigment and patina, by jewel-like depths and polychromatic gorgeousness, moved to celebrate and adore the sheer richness of his chosen medium. Paint is his prime commitment. Colour is the glory, for ever and ever."
(Extract from a foreword by Liz Lochhead, Glasgow January 2002)
