Oxmarket Contemporary is looking forward to welcoming artist Robin Richardson with his exhibition in the John Rank - Relentless. The exhibition explores a lifetime of Robin’s relationship with the sea, his continuing journey and part of that journey is his associations with fellow mariners over that time. The reports of the mariners experiences and stories have inspired and humbled Robin.

The paintings for Robin’s Exhibition Relentless are his interpretation of the sea, with its ever changing and varying moods. Benign and calm one minute and in short order there is change. Robin says ‘the sea rarely stays the same for long - maybe this show should be titled ‘Restless rather than ‘Relentless’.

The sea has been a major influence in Robin’s life and he is aware it touches most of us in varying ways. Some are comfortable on the water others are not. So many conflicting emotions - such incredible beauty, an ever present danger and peril.

Within this show you will find paintings representing peace and calm, grey foreboding skies, driving light, bad visibility and then of course those paintings of the sea when it is angry. Many contrasts.

There is a group of paintings of a rescue in the Southern Ocean in horrendous conditions of a fellow competitor from his sinking vessel. Both were sailing singlehanded and is an amazing story of luck combined with an amazing act of Seamanship.

Robin says ‘We are of course dealing with the sublime. Artists like Caspar David Friedrich and Rothko continue to influence my painting’.

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