Lorna Robertson
No Words Only Feelings, Part 4 (one)
Oil on canvas
2022
Lorna Robertson is an artist from Surrey with Scottish roots, she studied at Central Saint Martins and is now based in Hackney Wick, East London. She works in abstract oil painting and drawing, specialising in geometric compositions and portraits. Her work explores the internal structure of abstract painting, and seeks to portray aspects of our human experience.
The “No Words, Only Feelings” collection, is a series inspired by the relationship of abstract painting and instrumental music, and how sound and rhythm can be visualized using shape and colour. Juxtaposing deep yellow, red and blue, humming alongside their cooler toned counterparts to create their own kind of harmony – the colours and shapes are a nod to the women of the Bauhaus movement. The musical touchstones range from the compositions of Philip Glass to the spiritual jazz of John and Alice Coltrane.
Over time Lorna has developed her own visual language, a way of seeing the world through the imaginary picture plane, seeking to connect conscious and unconscious parts of our experience through the process of painting. Shapes and colours interact visually to stimulate and excite the eyes, as we follow them around the composition they push forward and retreat – creating a visual movement.
