Hollyhock Garden

Original: oil on canvas, 48 inches in diameter; © Lee Robinsong 2005 “Hollyhock Garden” was painted by Lee Robinsong between 2000 and 2005 as a celebration of the legendary garden at the Hollyhock Retreat Centre on British Columbia’s Cortes Island. The land that is...

Worlds in Balance

Original: oil on canvas, 48 inches in diameter; © Lee Robinsong 1984 “Worlds in Balance” is a painting about my home. It was painted in 1984 from a beach cottage on southern Cortes Island where I lived for six years, attuning to the tides, the winds and the skies. The...

Un jardin à Ben Aknoun El-Djazair 1966

Original: oil on canvas, 48 inches in diameter; © Lee Robinsong 2008 “Un jardin à Ben Aknoun El-Djazair 1966” is a painting I did from memory of my childhood home in Algiers in the mid 1960s. The beautiful Moorish house, built in 1770, was a place of discovery and...

Spirit-Swallows

Original: oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 inches in diameter; © Lee Robinsong 1984 “Spirit-Swallows” depicts the southern Cortes Island coastline at the head of the Georgia Strait, between Vancouver Island and the Mainland. A squall pushing through from the west brings...

South Cortes Island Blufflands under Mackerel Sky

Original: oil on canvas, 48 inches in diameter; © Lee Robinsong 1992 In 1991, Lee Robinsong moved from a house by the ocean to a cabin deep in the forests of British Columbia’s Cortes Island. With the change in location came a change in perspective. Life by the ocean...

Solstice Kings

Original: oil and acrylic on canvas, 8 by 14 inches; © Lee Robinsong 2008 Winter Solstice is celebrated around the world as the time when the light once again emerges from the dark. In the Celtic folklore of the British Isles, Solstice is a time of combat between...