Lorna Robertson's colourful paintings, often made with a combination of oil paint and collage, have a distinctly nostalgic tone. Shimmering female forms with swinging skirts from the 1950s or bonneted bathers from the 1920s jostle with richly described interiors and crowded tabletops. Hints and glimpses of tangible forms ? a fashion model, for example, or a vase ? appear and then fragment into patterns and explosions of colour. This new publication coincides with Robertson's exhibition at Ingleby Gallery and is divided into sections that feature collections of recent large paintings by the artist (2015?2022), small paintings (all 2022) and works on paper (2016?2022), all of which demonstrate Robertson's characteristic layered interpretations of the female form alongside recurring motifs such as hats, long dresses and flowers. Her drawings (2018?2020) offer fluid forms in ink, pencil and watercolour. AUTHORS: Lorna Robertson was born in Ayr on the west coast of Scotland in 1967. She studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and currently lives and works in Glasgow. Her solo exhibition thoughts, meals, days was presented at Ingleby, Edinburgh, in summer 2022. Hettie Judah is chief critic on The i, a columnist for Apollo magazine, a contributing editor to The Plant, and writes regularly for the Guardian, Vogue, Frieze and the New York Times. Recent books include Lapidarium (Penguin, 2022), How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) (Lund Humphries, 2022), and Frida Kahlo (Laurence King, 2020). Mikey Cuddihy is an artist and writer living in East Sussex. Born in New York, she was educated at Summerhill School, Edinburgh College of Art, and Central Saint Martins in London. She lived and worked in London for over three decades, where she co-founded the Beck Road Arts Trust ? a live work community of artists in Hackney. 100 illustrations
