Birds Of Paradise, 2000 | Oil, 47" x 35", Collection of Robert Singleton, NM

Turning Cactus Blossom, 1997 | Oil, 54" x 42"

Pond Sunrise, 1996 | Oil, 46" x 36", Private Collection, Princeton, NJ

Pond, Butterfly, Dance, 1998 | Oil, 48" x 36"

Mapping A Promise, 1995 | Oil, 48" x 36", Private Collection, VT

Encounter Over Desert, 1999 | Oil, 42" x 48", Collection of Daphne Robinson, NJ

Early Work | Oils

“Sometimes the fragment of landscape thus transported into the present will detach itself in such isolation from all associations that it floats uncertainly in my mind like a flowering Delos, and I am unable to say from what place, from what time – perhaps, quite simply, from what dream- it comes.”

– Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past

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Agnes Stillfried, curator for education and communication at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna wrote the following for Marrin’s catalog, Moons, Arches and Coral.

“Marrin Robinson’s paintings are neither limited by their sense of place, nor can they be called ‘landscapes’ in the traditional sense. Trees, plants, views and vistas form merely the starting point for the artist’s imagination. Drawings or color studies made en plein air are developed in the studio, moving step by step away from the initial visual experience towards an abstraction which captures moods and emotions while retaining colors and shapes of the initial motif. Thus, “Birds of Paradise,” for example, with its images inspired by flowers and the blue of the sea, takes the viewer backwards and forwards between reality and abstraction. The painting’s haunting mood is not created by realistic detail but by its evocative colors.”