“My paintings,” she says “sit somewhere between abstraction and figuration, a tangled game of hide-and-seek that plays with the visibility and readability of an image. I often paint to find out what to paint, creating harmonies and tensions through placement of shape, specificity of color - the process itself becoming an act of revealing”.
Lorna Robertson (b.1967) was born in Ayr on the west coast of Scotland. She studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and currently lives and works in Glasgow. Her densely colored paintings, often made with a combination of oil paint and collage, have a distinctly nostalgic tone; shimmering female forms with swinging skirts from the 1950’s or bonneted bathers from the 1920’s jostle with richly described interiors; and crowded table-tops.
Her recent solo exhibitions include Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2024); The Armory Show, New York / Ingleby Gallery (2023) and ‘thoughts, meals, days,’ Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2022). Her work has featured in group exhibitions including ‘Wings of a Butterfly,’ Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2025); ’Drawing the Unspeakable,’ Towner, Eastbourne (2024); ‘Man Digging,’ Exeter Phoenix, Exeter (2023) and ‘Papertrail,’ Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles (2023).