Robyn Sharp

'The human form is infinitely varied in appearance, yet our DNA is almost identical, from person to person, region to region, race to race.

Beginning my artistic journey with a passion for Asian aesthetics, I have transitioned to a point where every moment is spent looking at a face here, an arm there, the muscular and unaware beauty of a young man, or the endless crannies and wrinkles in the face of an elderly woman – just as beautiful, just as human, but perhaps more alluring and mysterious. (What have those eyes seen? What have those arms held? Who has she loved and who has she lost? Where is she moving to in the mists of the future?).

So, I spend my time trying to create the patterns of skin, of bone, of flesh. To go beyond form, by producing subtle layers of colour and shadow. And yet the forms of my study remain tantalising, fluid, fugitive. A lifetime of work can be found in one body, and a lifetime expressing this mystery in clay and on paper, is all I ask.'

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