Anne Russinof photo blogs a visit to the studio of painter Russell Roberts.

Writing about Roberts work for a show at Heskin Contemporary, Jennifer Riley has noted: "Using fragments, layers, lines, drips, washes and erasures [Roberts'] oil paintings depict a stratified and changing world in which multiple formal differences and often opposing elements conjoin to form new and integrated identities. In his complex structures, he collides organic irregularity with geometric and biomorphic shapes, and articulates stretches of canvas with an expansive range of unpredictable and constantly surprising color. Whether intuitive or willed, these dissimilar elements are applied in an endless play of chance imagery that becomes a principle order – where the primary subject is the intesity of multiplicity itself."