Sally Robertson

 

WATERCOLOR PAINTER - BOLINAS, CA

Sally Robertson’s delicate and beautiful watercolor paintings are inspired by her prize-winning garden in coastal California. A creator with both a paintbrush AND a green thumb, she tries to combine “the clear eye of a gardener with the vision of an artist.”

Sally's watercolor paintings are influenced by flowers near and far, from her own garden on the Northern California coast to Monet’s Giverny, to gardens of the South Pacific. "Sometimes it is the morning light on a dewdrop which evokes a painting, other times a serene still life. I try to search out the most telling and revelatory aspects of my subjects, always pushing the limits of the descriptive power of watercolor."

Although Sally's work is characterized by a strong sense of realism, she has a reverence for the poetic quality of watercolor, and believes that watercolor applied wet-into-wet has a spontaneous life of its own and an exuberance that reflects nature most powerfully. 

Sally has shown her work in many museums and galleries around the world, including the Smithsonian. Her botanical orchid designs have also been the face of the Pacific Orchid Exposition for many years.

Sally regularly hosts Studio & Garden tours and has recently been the subject of a retrospective exhibition at The Bolinas Museum.