Carol Robertson Diamonds - Pink , 2025

Geometry is my muse, it's my starting point. I've explored diamond formations before, but perhaps never with quite such a colourful palette; their character and presence so completely opposite to the circular motifs I closely associate myself with. Sharp zig-zag rhythms play with vivid colour pairings, intuitively balanced to cross-reference, left to right, top to bottom. By containing them within circles or squares, they take on an emblematic or heraldic quality, bright and distinctive.

Carol Robertson (b. 1955) lives and works in London. She was Research Fellow in Painting at Cardiff School of Art & Design from 2003 - 2008. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the UK, Europe, Japan and the USA. Since 2001 Robertson has been a Returning Fellow at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, and in 2012 was Artist in Residence at the Kunstgarten in Graz, where she made 3D objects for the first time. In 2018 Carol Robertson was elected an Academician by the Royal West of England Academy.