Robin Beckwith
Robin Beckwith
Robin Beckwith is an art photographer, working to create images that render nature in a “painterly” fashion. She describes her work as Abstract Expressionist / Impressionist with a strong focus on nature—particularly trees.
Robin was born in Toronto, Canada to a family devoted to the arts—particularly music and theater. A career writer/photographer, her photography and design work have won several awards.
Somehow, she always knew she was a photographer even though she didn’t own a camera until her 20s.
When she was quite young, Robin’s parents had a subscription to a Time/Life series of art books. Every month, she would eagerly open and carefully page through the new book. She would take the dozen or so reproductions out of the pocket in the back of the book. It was like having the paintings all to herself. Although Robin’s teachers called her a “voracious reader,” she didn’t read these art books. Just looked.
That is a pattern she tends to follow to this day. Although the title of a work Robin finds meaningful, generally she finds talking or writing about art to detract rather than add to the visceral effect of wordlessly seeing.
While drawn to city life, Robin has always tried to live within human habitats as close to nature as she could. She grew up across the street from a park and a block away from a ravine. And now she lives overlooking a nature preserve.
Nature—in particular trees and water—is what she’s naturally drawn to in photography. “I have been awed and inspired by trees since the earliest days of my life,” says Robin. “What I aim to render in my photos is something of the vast range of feelings and thoughts these wonderful organisms—called “Earth’s lungs”—invoke in me.”
Robin says that the dendrites in her brain that flash into being as she creates her works also seem to be invoked in those same images.
“I hope I impart in my photos something of what I consider the souls of trees,” she says.
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Robin was born in Toronto, Canada to a family devoted to the arts—particularly music and theater. A career writer/photographer, her photography and design work have won several awards.
Somehow, she always knew she was a photographer even though she didn’t own a camera until her 20s.
When she was quite young, Robin’s parents had a subscription to a Time/Life series of art books. Every month, she would eagerly open and carefully page through the new book. She would take the dozen or so reproductions out of the pocket in the back of the book. It was like having the paintings all to herself. Although Robin’s teachers called her a “voracious reader,” she didn’t read these art books. Just looked.
That is a pattern she tends to follow to this day. Although the title of a work Robin finds meaningful, generally she finds talking or writing about art to detract rather than add to the visceral effect of wordlessly seeing.
While drawn to city life, Robin has always tried to live within human habitats as close to nature as she could. She grew up across the street from a park and a block away from a ravine. And now she lives overlooking a nature preserve.
Nature—in particular trees and water—is what she’s naturally drawn to in photography. “I have been awed and inspired by trees since the earliest days of my life,” says Robin. “What I aim to render in my photos is something of the vast range of feelings and thoughts these wonderful organisms—called “Earth’s lungs”—invoke in me.”
Robin says that the dendrites in her brain that flash into being as she creates her works also seem to be invoked in those same images.
“I hope I impart in my photos something of what I consider the souls of trees,” she says.
See the artist's work in the store.