ROBIN BANDENIEKS focuses on creating colourful, realistic oil paintings in four categories – human portraiture and figurative, animal, still life, and floral.
Oil paint is my medium of choice as it allows a vast array of mark making and simply squeezing it out onto the palette stimulates my creativity. I paint from real life, photographs and a combination of these resources - sometimes using myself as model and muse. When painting humans and animals my objectives are to capture a likeness and attitude: my goals are to invoke a story or rekindle a memory. I know a real connection has been made when my finished paintings stare back at me.
Public works include one of the 2018 Gate to Aldergrove murals; an on-going series of paintings created for Women of Peace Project in 2014, which includes portraits of each female winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; and in 2017 a series of 15 paintings capturing her experiences during a 2015 trip to India. More information, paintings, and musings on Robin Bandenieks Art on 28th Studio | Facebook www.instagram.com/robinbandenieks
Recent Awards: 2nd Place standing in the 2020 artSpacific BC-wide juried Exhibition hosted by the Langley Arts Council in September 2020.
Biography Born (1949) in Saskatoon, Robin Bandenieks spent her youth in Aldergrove Langley Township growing up on her parents’ thoroughbred horse farm. Her education and career took her away from country life for many years, but she returned to Aldergrove in 1995 to build a home with her husband to raise their son and be close to family. In the late 1990s, while still immersed in a clinical microbiology career, her life-long passion for fine arts grew when through a series of unexpected, yet related, events she picked up a brush and started oil painting − just to see if she could. And, she kept at it. Now retired today much time is spent in her home studio, ART on 28th, planning, painting, and developing her art works. In addition, she continues to discover new strengths through self-directed and mentored studies, on-going live model painting sessions, and selected workshops. Living and painting-constantly experimenting.
Oil paint is my medium of choice as it allows a vast array of mark making and simply squeezing it out onto the palette stimulates my creativity. I paint from real life, photographs and a combination of these resources - sometimes using myself as model and muse. When painting humans and animals my objectives are to capture a likeness and attitude: my goals are to invoke a story or rekindle a memory. I know a real connection has been made when my finished paintings stare back at me.
Public works include one of the 2018 Gate to Aldergrove murals; an on-going series of paintings created for Women of Peace Project in 2014, which includes portraits of each female winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; and in 2017 a series of 15 paintings capturing her experiences during a 2015 trip to India. More information, paintings, and musings on Robin Bandenieks Art on 28th Studio | Facebook www.instagram.com/robinbandenieks
Recent Awards: 2nd Place standing in the 2020 artSpacific BC-wide juried Exhibition hosted by the Langley Arts Council in September 2020.
Biography Born (1949) in Saskatoon, Robin Bandenieks spent her youth in Aldergrove Langley Township growing up on her parents’ thoroughbred horse farm. Her education and career took her away from country life for many years, but she returned to Aldergrove in 1995 to build a home with her husband to raise their son and be close to family. In the late 1990s, while still immersed in a clinical microbiology career, her life-long passion for fine arts grew when through a series of unexpected, yet related, events she picked up a brush and started oil painting − just to see if she could. And, she kept at it. Now retired today much time is spent in her home studio, ART on 28th, planning, painting, and developing her art works. In addition, she continues to discover new strengths through self-directed and mentored studies, on-going live model painting sessions, and selected workshops. Living and painting-constantly experimenting.
