About Me
I am the sort of artist who can paint all the way through the night, drinking coffee, subsisting on chocolate almonds, and eventually falling asleep for a few hours on the studio couch as the sun comes up. Paintings can be a total obsession.
All of my paintings start out as swaths of color, slowly pulling the subject into view. Eventually, after the first layers of paint, there will be the form of a jaw, a neck, the particular set of a brow, and before long there will be a full person there, almost leaning off of the canvas, and I will stand up from the easel and drink more coffee before coming back to make a hundred soft amendments to the image. In my mind there are hard-fought lessons, a world of observed experiences, and undercurrents of emotion that are all brought to bear and which ensure every work is entirely unique from another.
If you are interested in commissioning a painting or simply getting in touch, use the form on this page or email me at robertaldenart@gmail.com and I will quickly respond.