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By CINDY MAHAN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Lee Robertson has been making his living as an artist for 30 years.
For the past ten years he has been a part-time resident of Rappahannock County. Lately he has been diligently working on several large-scale oil paintings of scenes from the countryside — apple orchards, chickens, mountains — for a show which will open this Saturday at the Talk of the Town on Gay Street in Washington.
Mr. Robertson stays with longtime friend and well-known cabinetmaker Peter Kramer while he is here; otherwise, he lives in the Ozarks. He and Mr. Kramer met at a national festival of craftsmen outside of Branson, Mo. At the time, Mr. Robertson was producing sculptural lighting and fountains for commercial and residential jobs and had 13 employees.
He now works on his own, though he has some apprentices, and has been nationally recognized for his sculpture work. “Circle of the Waters,” a stainless steel sculpture in Branson, is included in the Smithsonian’s national survey of public sculpture.
Many of his other sculptures have been two-dimensional works of copper and have been shown at Talk of the Town and in museums. Though he is mostly concentrating on painting now, he still creates a lot of sculpture and sells it in galleries in New Orleans, Kansas and various towns in Arkansas and Missouri. For galleries, said Mr. Robertson, an artist can make what they like and what moves them personally. “It sinks or swims on its own merit,” he said.
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