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Mr. Robertson arrived in Rappahannock for this year’s stay in early April so that he could catch the apple blossoms in the orchards. He will have three very large paintings of orchards in his show this weekend; one is of the Williams orchard in Flint Hill. Last week he was finishing the underground colors on the orchard paintings; the top layer amd the last to be painted will be the white blossoms.
Being frustrated with the limited color palette of making metal sculptures, he has embraced painting with a passion. “Painting for me is like a bird let out of a cage. I suddenly have this outrageous palette,” he said. That love of color shows in his paintings, sometimes in unexpected but delightful ways, such as splashes of intense blue within the trees in his 48” by 66” painting, “Psalm 121,” the image used on the invitation for the upcoming show.
With metal sculpture there are certain steps to go through in creating it, and oil painting is similar in that it is procedural, said Mr. Robertson. Underground layers of paint are applied and then the surface is built up, he explained. What I like about oil painting is that it relates to sculpture; there is a procedure in there, said Mr. Robertson.
He claims that he used to be a “Picasso basher,” but once he saw how the paint was so purposeful and rich on Picasso’s paintings, the way the paint was on the canvas, he became an admirer of Picasso’s work. He always examines paintings up close to see how the paint was layered, what the
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