About

Robina Jack creates both intricately patterned ceramics and paintings on found wood.  Her work is informed by a childhood spent mucking around on an Oxfordshire farm and makes frequent nods to a vanished past.  Much of it is populated by a menagerie of characterful animals, from wistful horses to purposeful hens.  Often a ship in full sail cuts across the waves somewhere between the viewer and a distant horizon, a nostalgic allusion to her family’s maritime connections and to a great grandfather who captained a transatlantic clipper during the reign of Victoria.  No piece is complete without an elaborately decorated border or two, Robina’s motto being, “why have only one border when there’s room for several more?”.

Ceramics and painting have occupied Robina for the past twelve years, and prior to that she made acid etched stained glass panels, having attended a course at the Central School of Art in London during the 1970s.  She has exhibited widely since the 1990s, and currently shows work at galleries including: galleries including: David Messum Fine Art in St. James’s, and previously on London’s Cork Street, (alongside her husband Guy Taplin and daughter Nancy Rose Taplin); Yew Tree Gallery, Godfrey and Watt; Gallery Nine; Twenty Twenty Gallery; and Geedon Gallery.  She has pieces on permanent display at Ham Yard Hotel, London and Whitby Hotel and Warren Street Hotel, New York, curated by Kit Kemp.  A selection of her work will be available for purchase at David Messum Fine Art from 10am on 11th November 2024.