Robin Cordiner

Robin studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, Graduating in 1996 with an honours degree in Fine Art Printmaking. Ever since, he has been working from the Seacourt Printworkshop. He exhibits widely, both in the U.K. and abroad. In the past he has Won both the Nicholson & Bass Prize for the most outstanding original print and The Bass Contemporary Art Award.

The relationship between nature, landscape and spirituality is the central theme running through all his work. Flowers and tropical plants are used as Memento Mori to express notions of change and temporality as used in Flemish vanitas painting. The geology of landscape is used in other works to convey a vision of an eternal landscape that exists beneath are own.

The works themselves are built up in layers sometimes using as many as three different printmaking techniques. In most, the initial printing of a Collograph is used to provide the drawn elements of the image. This also provides the linear boundaries with which to register further plates when laying down colours. The image then is gradually filled in, colour by colour, plate by plate.