Robert Holcombe has been painting for over three decades and in that time has gained national and international recognition and is represented in many corporate and private collections throughout the world.

His work is sort after by discerning art buyers in the corporate and private sectors, nationally and internationally and with current trends, is not only a visual pleasure but also an investment.

In the year 2000, Robert received national and international awards for his work titled Cry of the Wilderness in the Winsor & Newton Worldwide Millennium Painting Competition, which attracted over 22500 entries from 51 countries.

Robert's abstracted landscapes are a statement of the beauty and harshness yet fragility, of this untamed land. Expressed through strong, thick and thin lines dissecting, submerging and reappearing amongst varying textures and colours. Manipulating the work surface by the means of rubbing, scraping, wiping, scumbling, allowing the paint to run and glazing makes for a rich tapestry of design.

At times by using multiple perspectives, he challenges the viewer to question and re-think the way they see the landscape.

The result is work that explores the essence of the surface, framework and underlay of landscape rather than dealing with specifics. For the viewer this will mean many more metaphoric possibilities to consider.

The work can be viewed on 'face value'- purely for its colours, patterns, harmonies, contrasts and design or as an exaggeration and distortion for statement of the actual landscape be it close-up, distant, aerial or from under the surface (x-ray). The paintings can also be an environmental statement, the black lines representing the landscape's skeleton, the fragile 'skin' is being destroyed, eroded away or changed by man and nature.

Robert considers his works to be earthy and primal with a strong environmental statement.

When visiting the gallery please ask to view  Robert's paintings in our stack.

                         
  Great Ocean Road                 Bunyip waterhole                   Stone country
73x53cm acrylic on wcb            paama 73x53cm acrylic        73x53cm acrylic on wcp-b

      
Mungo Country                                               Back of beyond     
75x100cm acrylic on paper                             75x101cm acrylic on clayboard         

                 
Desert River                                                            Beyond arkaroola
72x94cm acrylic on paper                                          122x112 acrylic on linen

        
     Arkaroola landscape (3)                               Arkaroola landscape (4) 
     17x23cm acrylic on paper                            17x23cm acrylic on paper

    
Arkaroola landscape (1)                                   Arkaroola landscape (2) 
 17x23cm acrylic on paper                                 17x23cm acrylic on paper 

 
Signum 2
53x73cm acrylic on wcb