Blog – Janet Mary Robinson

Expressive Flower Painting Workshop at Lancaster House Hotel on 27th April

I’m delighted to be running a second art workshop at Lancaster House Hotel on Sunday 27th April. This class is suitable for all levels including beginners. We’ll be painting some lovely spring flowers; having fun with lots of enjoyable techniques in a variety of media including Brusho inks, pastels, and watercolour pencils. The session will […]

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‘Mrs Foxy’ – public sculpture for Angela Fox Nature Garden, Cuckfield

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I was really pleased to be asked to make my first public sculpture earlier this year. ‘Mrs Foxy’, who could probably use a more dignified title, was commissioned for the new Angela Fox Nature Garden in Cuckfield, West Sussex, and she was installed there in October. The garden is still a work in progress, so

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Wild winter Sky, Morecambe Bay

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Boxing Day at Plover Scar, Morecambe Bay, looking east to the Bowland Fells. The wind was freezing cold but there was a small flock of tiny birds flitting around through the hail. In the fields further inland there were lots of whooper swans. I like sketching with watercolour pencils, they’re softer than regular coloured pencils

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Prize Draw of Original Artwork In Aid of Protecting The Amazon

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‘Towards The Sun’, Oil on canvas, 71 x 71 cm I am raffling this painting to raise funds for a Go Fund Me Campaign which helps support indigenous defenders of the Amazon Rainforest. It was set up in memory of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira who were murdered earlier this year in the Amazon. There

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Wildlife sculptures on show at Maiden Bridge Arts Centre

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I’m honoured to be showing a selection of my wildlife sculptures in Maiden Bridge Arts Centre, in their summer exhibition. Maiden Bridge is situated on a former farm high in the Bowland Fells above the Lune Valley in a truly lovely location. This is my first time showing work at Maiden Bridge, my first exhibition following

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Stainless Steel Heron Sculpture

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I just finished polishing my new life-size heron sculpture, in 5 mm stainless steel. Here’s a preview. It will soon be for sale on my Etsy shop, WyrebirdStudio.

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Wyrebird Studio Sculpture Shop

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I’m really pleased to have finally opened the virtual doors of my new Etsy shop, WyreBird Studio. I will be selling my sculptures here. For now I have a selection of my small bird sculptures made from up-cycled cutlery, and three of my new steel sculptures made using a water jet cutting process; see Mrs

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Wild At The Margins at Lancaster City Museum

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I’m exhibiting paintings and sculptures at an exhibition at Lancaster City Museum next month, alongside Fay Collins. Our work focuses on nature and wildlife and it’s relation with humans and the human environment. Most of my paintings are of landscapes very close to my home, the woodland alongside the River Wyre, and the Lune Estuary,

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Madge The Malevolent Midge

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It was my Dad’s birthday recently and I wanted to make him a charming dragonfly sculpture, but somehow instead this Gothic horror style fly appeared! I’m not sure you could ever create something that is very delicate when you start with two horseshoes. Dad seemed quite pleased with Madge though.

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Curlew sculpture

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I’d like to share a couple photos of my latest metal sculpture, a curlew. It is the first in a new series of sculptures of endangered British wildlife. (Sadly, this didn’t exactly narrow my options – finding species which aren’t endangered would be more difficult I think!) I’m at the start of exploring a new

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