Robin Edmundson's goal is to record the regular, everyday places and happenings of rural life in a way to celebrate those places, tasks and the people who do them. Every one of her paintings has as much ‘home’ in it as possible. After earning a Ph.D. in linguistics and teaching at Indiana University for 26 years, Robin turned her full attention to weaving and dyeing. She has won awards for her fiber art at such prestigious shows as Bloomington, Indiana’s, 4th Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts. She is a recipient of an Indiana Artist’s Grant. In 2014, she began to work with watercolor, first as a way to stay sane during Hoosier winters, and then as a personal challenge, to master this tricky medium. Her work was quickly accepted into juried exhibitions. As a primarily self-taught artist, Robin did an intensive study of color theory on her own, using that knowledge to inform her work as a dyer and fiber artist and later as a painter. Her artistic mantra is, ‘Don’t paint the thing, paint how the light that hits the thing’ and she’s spends a lot of time working out how to use color to best effect to do just that. She has been teaching color theory since 2003.
She was born in Michigan, went to college in Utah, but has spent the majority of her life in Indiana, which she loves. Her home is in rural southern Indiana, and she paints the farms next door, the woods, fields, marshes, clouds and sky. Everything that happens in this world happens under the sky. We ought to look at it more.
She was born in Michigan, went to college in Utah, but has spent the majority of her life in Indiana, which she loves. Her home is in rural southern Indiana, and she paints the farms next door, the woods, fields, marshes, clouds and sky. Everything that happens in this world happens under the sky. We ought to look at it more.
Clearing the Fencerows; Burning Old Bales
Virginia Creeper
Late Summer Field, Greene County'
