Contemporary oil paintings
Robin Cole, “The Uncertainty Principle,” oil on panel, 32 x 48 in., $8,800.

Gallery 1261 presents “Animas,” a solo exhibition of contemporary oil paintings by Robin Cole.

“My work explores an inner wilderness by way of an outer one; I believe that the natural world is not only an inherent part of us as human beings (and we of it), but that it is the original, exquisitely sensitive mirror in which we find our own inner terrain and wildness reflected,” Cole says. “My work has always been an act of reverence for the natural world. There is an element of science in it, in the desire to study and observe. But there is an element of spirit, too, in the continual reaching for something just beyond the visible.

“Though the devoted naturalist in me is always present, these images come as often from within as without, informed as significantly by emotional texture as observation. I am interested in moments of elemental experience that feel resonant in this way, in the way of dreams. Sometimes the forces of our world seem to align, and the concentric motion of insects, the unique geometry of the land, or the slow-waning glow of green things at dusk lends a feeling of otherworldliness to something previously familiar. These are the times when the veil feels thin, when an omnipresent but unnoticed magic moves beneath the surface of the ordinary. We are finely tuned to these existential currents. In my work, I aim to cultivate a receptivity to them, to pair our desire for understanding with an equally honest experience of imagination.”

Contemporary oil paintings
Robin Cole, “Wayfarer,” oil on linen, 20 x 30 in. $5,800.
Contemporary oil paintings
Robin Cole, “Ouroboros,” oil on linen, 20 x 16 in., $3,200.
Contemporary oil paintings
Robin Cole, “Desire Guides Imagination,” oil, 24 x 30 in. $6,900.
Contemporary oil paintings
Robin Cole, “Visitor,” oil, 8 x 6 in., $1,000.

“Animas: Robin Cole Solo Exhibition” is on view at Gallery 1261 (Denver, Colorado) through October 27, 2018.


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