About Brookside Studio, East Otto, New York, Robin Zefers Clark




		ABOUT BROOKSIDE STUDIO

	Robin Zefers Clark is a storyteller. But she doesn't string words together; instead she uses watercolor brushes to tell her tales, Her paintings relate an ongoing pictorial record of life in rural Western New York State. At first she worked primarily with oils, but by the time Robin received her Master's in painting from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, she'd been captivated by watercolor. For her it's unpredictability spelled adventure. In 1989, Robin and her husband Tom built Brookside Studio. Today, her watercolors, with their haunting beauty, gently blur the line between past and present. Robin often uses local farms, family and friends as her subjects, as well as the "interesting faces and places" she finds among the dog-eared pages of dusty old photo albums. "I tell myself stories while I paint," Robin explains, "and before you know it the brush takes over." Perhaps this storytelling is what gives her work its timeless quality. She says simply, "I paint the things I've always known." But she does so with a sensitivity and depth of caring that breath life into each "story." It's a letter that Robin received from Louisiana though, that best captures the appeal of Robin's art. The author ignored the dictates of grammar to write straight from the heart, "It's like you been in my head? like you seen what I seen."









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