| BECAUSE ART MATTERS |
| ROBIN WALL - Painter |
'Painting chickens is like painting traffic: you pick out a chicken and wait for it to stop,' says Robin Wall. Best known as a landscape painter, Robin began painting chickens in 1999. On holiday in Oxfordshire, he began to share his landlady's affection for her hens. Since then he has painted free-range, small-coop birds wherever he can find them. In 2005 and 2008, Robert R. Reid (Vancouver), who now specializes in limited-edition artists' books, published two collections of Robin's roosters and hens: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?: Thirty Philosophers Answer This Timeless Question and The Wild Roosters of Stanley Park. 'The more I paint chickens, the more I know that they are each and every one unique,' he says. 'My chickens have personalities, and they enjoy life.' Robin Wall has been a working artist since 1970. He has had solo exhibitions in London (England), as well as in Toronto and Vancouver. If you would like to see other paintings (landscapes, townscapes, flowers or more chickens), please feel free to phone 613-471-6110 or email robinewall@gmail.com Please click on my daily blog at http://ipaintchickens.com/ |
