Robert Maclaurin

Scottish landscape painter, Robert Maclaurin has been exhibiting since the early 1980's. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. Maclaurin has held numerous successful solo and group exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, Milan, Rome, Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Melbourne. His work is represented in many major British art collections, including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; The Fleming/Wyfold Foundation, London; The Royal Collection and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Maclaurin re-located from Edinburgh, Scotland to work full-time in central Victoria in 2001, and became an Australian citizen in 2005. Maclaurin is now represented in several major Australian collections and continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally.

Robert Maclaurin's landscapes take the viewer on an endless journey through a vast range of settings including, Australia's open wilderness, dense woodlands, sweeping deserts and burnt mountain ranges. His depictions of the countryside are romantic and vibrant, evoking mystical and emotive visions. Like well-respected European painters of the past, Maclaurin's artistic eye has been captivated by the vastness of outback Australia, and his artworks present a true celebration of this unique environment.

'Realism, in art - Maclaurin's paintings of landscapes are realist in their conception - the deepest mask of all, for it seems to set aside our need to understand what it is we are seeing and the result is often that we fail to look properly at what we see. His vision is unique and powerfully innovative if we make the effort to bypass the seeming familiarity of his images. For there is more to them than at first meets our eye. These are paintings to live with for a lifetime. They will go on revealing themselves and their depths and idiosyncracies for decades and while they will grow more and more familiar, they will never appear quite the same each subsequent encounter. It is a mark of great art that it stays in the mind long after it has been looked at'. Alex Miller 2007