Robin Mackervoy ROI
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My first consideration is for composition, to place the subject comfortably within a scene, using varying tones to promote its importance. I then use the surrounding space to draw attention to and emphasise the main subject through variations in colour, tone, texture and line.
Robin Mackervoy generally prefers to work from life, but for works produced in the studio he uses the back-up of photographs to add to the information that his preparatory sketches provide. Initial sketches are generally carried out in a different medium from the final piece and he uses a pochade box for sketches in oil or heat-set oil colour. Robin's preference is for preparatory sketches in pencil, pen or watercolour and he likes to use oil or acrylic for the final pieces. When painting directly from the subject he likes to work on the whole surface together and he does not draw-in until the base coat is complete. In addition to canvas Robin also uses panels which adds to the variety of surface, texture and size.
1933 Born on 23 October in Hampshire
1986 Further Education Teaching Certificate
1987-98 Lecturer at Hertford Regional College in Drawing and Painting
1992 Elected a Member of the Wapping Group of Artists
2006 Elected an Associate Member of the Royal institute of Oil Painters
2008 Elected a Member of the Royal institute of Oil Painters
The Wapping Group of ArtistsTrustee and Past President of The London Sketch Club
President of The Lea Valley Art Society
Hertford Art Society Chelsea Art Society
The Stanley Grimm Memorial Prize, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 1999
1991 Haileybury
1992 St John’s Smith Square
1992- Wapping Group of Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1995- Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1995- Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
The Wapping Group of Artists: The First 50 Years, 1996
'Artists & Illustrators', 1999 and 2004
'International Artist', 2000
‘Leisure Painter', 2002 and 2003
The Wapping Group of Artists: Sixty Years of Painting by the Thames, Seafarer Books, 2005