ROBIN FITZGERALD CHARLSEN is a child of the sixties born to a suburban Chicago family, the youngest of three children. Always the most artistic of the three, she had a crayon in hand from an early age. Attending St. Joseph's College in Indiana, she majored in art and began developing her unique style. In her mid-twenties, she migrated to Denver, Colorado and was forced to put her art on the back burner while she made a living as a legal assistant, among other things. She married her soul mate in 1997 and was able to devote her energies to her art.
Robin has always been fascinated by the human form and her present style has been years in the making. Even as a little girl, she always wanted to break the pictures she drew into sections . . .and she still does ! Then when she studied art in college she began a life long dedication to figurative art and the use of color, which she feels is much more exciting than any other subject matter.
Robin spends her spare time in interior decorating, creating logos for businesses and non-profit groups. She loves music and maintains a large library of her favoritie tunes.
Robin recently moved to Trinity, Alabama with her husband for his job relocation.
Robin Fitzgerald Charlsen
Tim Charlsen
broken color:::
Broken color was first used by Manet and the Impressionists in 19th century French painting, where color was applied in small "dabs," as opposed to the traditional method of smoothly blending colors and values (lights and darks) together. This method results in more of a "patchwork" effect, where the dabs render the facets of light on forms, and/or the planes of the forms' volume, by means of color and value. Broken color has continued to be used in much modern and contemporary painting.
