June 2011 Art Show at Lava Yoga Studio

"The Apple" $420 SOLD
24"x24" oil on Masonite

"Rocking Horse Blue" $90 SOLD
7"x14" Oil and ink on Canvas

"Robbing the Hive" $420 SOLD
28"x36" Oil on Canvas

"O, There's My Ring" $360 SOLD
24"x36" oil on Masonite

"Jenna Alone" $90
7"x14" Oil on Canvas

"Visions" $90
11"x14" Ink on Canvas Board - Framed

"Beaded Skull" $270
Glass beads on cow skull. This was a totally new project for me. I have about 30 hours and 4500 beads in this! It was lots of fun.

"At The Lake" $270
24"x36" Oil on Canvas

"Angelina" SOLD
24"x24" Oil on Masonite

"Storm Clouds"
24"x36" $360

"I See the Moon" $270 - SOLD
24"x24" oil on masonite


"The Raven" $330 SOLD
24"x24" Oil on Canvas

June 2011 Art Show at Lava Yoga Studio

The art show at Lava Yoga Studio was a huge success. A big Thank You to everyone!

"Smile, O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth!

Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!

Earth of the departed sunset-earth of the mountains misty-topt!...

Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!...

Smile, for your lover comes."

--Walt Whitman

Recent Paintings

The first painting finished in my new studio!
June 2009

"The Bright Wild World" Oil on masonite "24x30" Unframed $250.00

Email me at robinlassiterart@gmail.com to purchase this piece painted December 2007

"Commercial St. Trinidad, CO"

"Johnson Mesa Moon" Oil on Paper Approx. 14"x18". $300.00

SOLD Thanks, Marci!!

"El Ray" Commissioned piece July 2008

"Digging the Well" 24"x36" Painted June 2008.

"Mother Earth Father Sky" Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas 24"x30" $450.00

Email me at robinlassiterart@gmail.com to purchase this piece painted June 2008.

"Galloping Blue" Oil on 24"x36" Gallery Wrapped Canvas. $450.00 + shipping. Contact me at robinlassiterart@gmail.com to purchase this piece painted June of 2008.

" The Boat" Oil on Gallery wrapped canvas 24"x30" SOLD

Email me at robinlassiterart@gmail.com to purchase this piece painted May 2008

"Someday Home" 8"x8" Oil on Paper SOLD

Thanks, Mary!

" Self Portrait" First I've done since high school.

Who am I again??

"Raven Dream" pencil and pen on paper...

For several nights, I had been dreaming that a Raven was swooping down at me from behind. I would know that it was coming, and change the dream, or wake up. Finally, on Tuesday night, he swooped from behind, and then forced his way in front of me so that I had to acknowledge him. He had a bone... a human bone... in his beak. I had to take it, even though it felt like a great responsiblity. Trying to figure this dream out, and trying not to take myself too seriously...

01/15/08

01/25/08 - Now I see why I dreamed about the Raven.

My Mother's Dream - oil on paper 11"x18" SOLD

More Paintings

"Butterfly Woman 2" Oil on Paper approx 18"x22".

SOLD. Thank you, Dani!

"Splatter Horse" Acrylic on wrapped-edge Canvas 24"x30"SOLD

Email me at robinlassiterart@gmail.com to purchase this piece painted April 2008.

"Adam's Horse" 24"x28" oil on masonite. $450.00 Framed

SOLD... Thanks so much, Dani!

This painting was directly inspired by a poem by Adam Robinson.

"Apishapa Night" 18"x26" Oil on Canvas. $400.

SOLD... Thanks Jennifer!!

"Fall Colors" Oil on Masonite 24"x24" $400.

SOLD

"The Drive Home" oil on masonite. 24"x 36" Framed. $600 + Shipping

E-mail me at robinlassiterart@gmail.com to purchase this piece painted August, 2007.

"Flowers at Night" oil on masonite. 24"x30" Framed.

SOLD!! Thanks so much, Nancy and Daphne!

Email me at robinlassiterart@gmail.com to purchase this piece painted August 2007.

Artist Statement

I am bursting at the seams to paint and paint and paint. I want to fall into the colors and shapes and get away from this sharp world... or enter it more completely. I want to paint to somehow, painfully, achingly, express my duality. I want all and nothing. I want people to see the world as I see it, but I jealously protect my true self and prevent that. I am not a writer, so I will use others' words to express what I feel. My hope is that I will someday touch the same things that these artists touched. Is it all there for anyone to brush against, or is it a secret thing? I feel myself inexorably drawn toward it.

Unknown:
"An Artist is Someone Who Trusts Herself. "


from "The Forest Lover" by Susan Vreeland, about Emily Carr
"Paint the forest darker."

"The current art movement in Paris aims not to reproduce subjects but to represent them through color. It seeks to penetrate the nature of things by bolder brushwork, to interpret by exaggeration, and to convey form with light and color rather than using them as mere decoration on a form. The artist's goal should be to make the strongest possible presentation of his emotional reaction to a subject by using bold color and strong linear patterns."

"The new ideas are big and they fit this big glorious West. I do not say mine is the only way to paint. I only say it's the way that appeals to me."

"Life was short, and shorter still the number of years a person felt bold enough to face a blank canvas"

from "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman
"You shall possess the good of the earth and sun."

"Smile, O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
Earth of the departed sunset - earth of the mountains misty-topt!...
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!...
Smile, for your lover comes."

Frida Kahlo
"They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."

Georgia O'Keeffe
"Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something."

How to Purchase My Art

E-mail me at robinlassiterart@gmail.com for originals, prints, greeting cards, and commissioned items.

Paintings on sale at Curiosities in Trinidad, CO.