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i have no idea what i’m doing

I came to painting late in life. After a decade as a jewelry designer in Los Angeles and a year trekking South East Asia to empty my head, I moved back to Dallas, picked up a brush and starting painting. Good, bad or indifferent, it didn’t matter; the urgent desire to create visual dialogue in this vast and messy medium was irrepressible.

Painting is hypnotic, mysterious, juicy and unpredictable. It is endlessly beguiling, sexy and wet. It makes my mouth water just thinking about it.

Most of my work is autobiographical in nature. Painting from a visceral and universally feminine point of view, I want the images to rouse curiosity and inquiry, to tease the underbelly of deep desire; to provoke and disturb.

Working in an acrylic medium, I paint in reverse on Plexiglas. While this is a meticulous and backassward process, the end result yields a bold and vociferous story for the viewer.

The overall objective of my current work is to convey the intrinsic power and beauty of poised vulnerability.   -- Robyn Lark Wakefield

“Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise
from flying in the face of presumptions.”
– Henry James