Meg Robinson
In my painting and in all my creative activities, the challenge is to allow my intuition and my energy to lead me in the search for what lies behind what we see.
Still fascinated by landscape and the human form I set out in each new painting, each new project, to explore the Bigger Picture, the world beyond our “ intelligent” understanding.
Recently I’ve been combining digital photography with drawing in Nature. I draw on rocks, sticks, leaves, beaches, then after photographing these images digitally, I “play” with them in the computer. After some time, something completely new appears, and I feel an electrifying sense of mystery and awe. I know instinctively when to stop. I know when I’ve “caught it”. Sometimes these images seem like profound emotional or spiritual telegrams (messages), they require decoding. Sometimes they appear like archetypal messengers. Sometimes I add words. These images invoke a tremendous excitement in me when they come to life. I am completely thrilled and deeply humbled in the same moment. I think these images give me a direct glimpse into a world beyond my so-called intelligent understanding .I love the experience of discovery, and the absence of ego.
The development of my art work and writing over the past nine years has gone hand in hand with my spiritual beliefs that it’s the journey that’s important, not the destination.
Art for me is a fascinating Process, what results from any new project is just another step along the way. Some steps are exquisite, others are not, all steps matter.
I believe art making is about intimacy, about accessing and exploring the deepest connections we can make with Nature and other people.
Art making for me is about allowing things to come to life, rather than meticulous planning an outcome. If I allow myself to be connected with energies I can’t describe, then beauty appears, ego goes, and all is well.
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“ Trade your cleverness for bewilderment” Rumi
“Living life as an unfolding poem”.
(Andrew Harvey, author of The Divine Path)
Meg Robinson was born in Belfast but grew up in Scotland. Part of her family live south of Dublin. Her two sons, daughters in law, and three grandchildren live in Scotland and Norway.
Following a short while working in a mice infested pottery in Edinburgh and then in a Dickension chocolate factory, Meg, aged 17,packed her kit bag and spent six adventure filled months exploring art, architecture, poetry, philosophy, life and love in East and West Germany, Holland, Belgium and northern France. Returning to London in 1962, she enrolled at The Heatherly School of Fine Art where she spent six further blissful months learning to draw and paint, experimenting with materials and ideas, compiling a portfolio, writing poetry, and generally becoming a fledgling artist/poet. Then began her “formal” art training at St Martins Art School in London. A year later, after falling in love with a Scottish poet, she transferred her studies to the Edinburgh College of Art. After graduating, she qualified as a teacher of art, and taught art for 12 years before creating her own private art school in Aberdeen Scotland, called The Independent Painters Workshop, “IPW”. The art school was based on the ideas of the Paris studios of the turn of the century. After 10 highly successful years she closed the school in 1996 to become a nomadic artist, dividing her time between Alaska, Northern Canada, Ireland and Spain. In 2001 Meg bought a tumble down house in a tiny enchanted mountain village in southern Spain. It took a year, a huge dream, much laughter, and a few tears to renovate it. She now offers various kinds of retreats all year round in which she is committed to help people rediscover their sense of adventure, and play, in life. She continues to travel and explore (usually in March and November) and in 2005 made her first visit to Patagonia in South America. Two years on the winter venture is Vietnam in December.
In 1996, Meg Robinson recovered completely from a ten-year chronic illness (ME/Chronic Fatigue) and a string of bereavements through Reiki, massage, drawing, writing, and mediation. This has lead her to explore and develop links between art and healing, creative activities and the grieving process, spiritual growth and meditation, personal development and clowning.
Hence the website name: healingartjourneys.
