Pantomimist, 2025
Nicholas Robertson
Acrylic on canvas Bella Arte panel
Original Painting, 25.5 x 30.5 x 0.5 cm
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About Nicholas Robertson
Born Gloucester UK. I suspect like most figurative artists I find drawing and painting the human form wholly embedded with human behaviour. The desire to secure more than a representation of a persons movement, the spilling of light over contours or the various other physical facets is the reason we continue to make paintings. To liberate a recognisable small emotion in texture, colour and pattern and to make it still, perhaps this is a measure of a successful painting. I like to work in acrylic because it allows me to experiment, making changes quickly is paramount when wishing to explore your options.
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I first drew this in1984 and did not follow through with a painting.
In 2024 I came across the drawing again while looking for something else and decided I would now paint it 41 years later! Its an elegant portly clown, I must have taken my children to a pantomime show or a traveling circus. I have a faded memory of the figure, but not the occasion. Such is the vagaries of a painting’s stimulation.
The work consists of a Rowney Cryla acrylic base coat of burnt orange, then opaque pigments are used to lay down the undercoating of some of the subject matter. Subsequently using acrylic paint in washes which has been thinned using diluted Liquidex airbrush medium. This layering of the work allows for subtle tonal attributes that give depth and intensity. The overall result is an acrylic painting with a degree of luminosity rather than the usual flat acrylic finish.