Carol Robertson lives and works in London. She is represented in the UK and USA by Flowers Gallery, by Galleri Weinberger in Denmark and by Peter Foolen Editions in The Netherlands. Her paintings, prints and watercolours can be found in public and private collections worldwide. She has published catalogues and artist’s books, won First Prize in the Singer & Friedlander/ Sunday Times Watercolour Competition in 2005 and was awarded a Research Fellowship in Painting at Cardiff School of Art & Design from 2003 - 2008.

Recent work has moved away from previous architectonic motifs of circles and stripes towards a more informal relationship with landscape, architecture, nature and the environment. The work remains firmly rooted within reductive abstract conventions. Coloured arcs loosely traverse the canvasses, with collisions and crossovers registering flashes of chance and coincidence. There is the reminiscence of small arcane details that curve across one’s vision, transient and fleeting. Each canvas is prepared with poured and stained pigment grounds, unstructured, atmospheric, free-flowing layers that deliberately highlight and complement the compass-drawn and carefully over-painted detail. Registrations of colour evolve intuitively and can change many times throughout the evolution of a work before a correct balance is established.