Leo RobbaRecent paintings: exhibition preview

19 March - 13 April 2013

Gardens Inside Shadows

Leo Robba Dusk, looking through big pines, 2012,

oil on canvas, 122cm x 69cm,

$5900

Space for reflection

The creation of gardens is determined by intellectual, social, economic, political

and artistic forces, which in turn are mirrored in gardens… ‘As is the

Gardener, so is the Garden’

Thomas Fuller, 1732

Leo Robba, Inside the Plum Tree, Bee Farm Rd, 2012

oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800

Leo Robba, A Bird in the Hand, Cliveden House, England, 2012

oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800

GREAT Mother, let Me Once be ableTo have a Garden, House, and Stable;That I may Read, and Ride, and Plant,Superior to Desire, or Want;And as Health fails and Years increase,Sit down and think, and die in Peace.

Virgil (1697)

Leo Robba, Pines and Autumn Blue, 2012

oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800

Leo Robba, Evening, Lavander and Pines, 2012oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800

Landscape and Meaning

“Quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy” Stanley Spencer after moving back to Cookham

Leo Robba, The Kitten Tree, Hillston 2012oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800

Leo Robba, Golden Shadows, Hillston, oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, 2012$1800

The Marriage of Landscape and culture

God Almightie first Planted a Garden. And indeed, it is the Purest of Humane pleasures. It is the Greatest refreshment of the Spirits of Man:Without which, Buildings and Pallaces are but Grosse Handy-works’Francis Bacon, 1625The Genius of Place- The English Land-scape Garden (1620 – 1820)

Leo Robba, Golden Pond, Everglades, 2012oil on canvas, 64 x 80cm, $4400

Leo Robba, View from Ground Level, Everglades,

oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800

Leo Robba, Five Pines, Everglades, oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800

Leo Robba, Looking into Light Everglades, oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800

Death and Resurectiuon

Some gardens look inward, others look outward, some unfold to the world, some shut themselves off from the world. The medieval cloister dreamed of Eden, in whose image it was concieved There a world-shy spirituality found sanc-tuary from the tumult of earthly passions and, through prayerand silent contemplation, kept open the prospect of the soul’s perpeptual holiday in heaven.

Robert Pogue Harrison

Leo Robba, Inside Hedges, Looking out, 2013oil on canvas, 64 x 80cm, $4400

Leo Robba, Study for Garden of Remembrance,

oil on canvas, 52 x 38cm, $1800

Leo Robba, Garden of Remembrance, 2012, oil on canvas, 170cm x 116cm$9900

Leo Robba, Headdress, Looking Through Shadows,oil on canvas, 110cm x 75cm $5900

Leo Robba Monument, The Everglades, 2013

oil on canvas, 110cm x 75cm $5900

Leo Robba , Dogwood, Before Dark, 2013,

oil on canvas, 110cm x 75cm $5900

Leo Robba, Camellia Head, Blue Pool and Shadows 2013, oil on canvas, 110cm x 75cm$5900

Leo Robba, Big Autumn, 2013, oil on canvas, 138cm x 360cm$18000

Leo Robba, Autumn Hillston, 2011,oil on canvas

104cm x 38cm, $3600

Leo Robba, Winter Dogwood 2011,

86cm x 64cm, oil on canvas $4400

Leo Robba, The Tulip Tree, Hillston, 2011oil on canvas, 64 x 80cm, $4400

Leo Robba, Gold, Pepper Tree and Pines, Hillston, 2013, oil on canvas, 52cm x 38cm$1800

Enquiries

King Street Gallery on William

177 William Street Darlinghurst NSW

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Director: Robert Linnegar Director: Randi Linnegar