{"id":326,"date":"2023-04-01T08:05:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T08:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2023-04-01T08:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T08:05:50","slug":"alexander-robb-workshop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/?page_id=326","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Robb workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AR-coffee-pot-1024x824.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AR-coffee-pot-1024x824.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AR-coffee-pot-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AR-coffee-pot-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AR-coffee-pot-1536x1235.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AR-coffee-pot-1568x1261.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/AR-coffee-pot.jpg 1630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Spencer.N.J. <em>Robb Coffe Pot and Fruit<\/em> <br>Oil on panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, 31st March 2023, I had the great honour of being a student in Sandy (Alexander) Robb&#8217;s painting workshop at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries.  The above preparatory painting, which I should emphasise is a work in progress, was the result, and has I think a hint of Robbishness about it in places, not that I was trying to imitate his style, but rather learn his approach and methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandy is a painter whom I have always held in high esteem for his excellent still-life work.  It is typically &#8216;deep&#8217;, beautifully composed, richly coloured, considered, and emphatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The striking thing about all Sandy&#8217;s painting is his commitment to laying down emphatic statements of well-judged colour-value that he then leaves to stand, each in its context, without then resorting to  further fiddling, tweaking, blending, smoothing etc. It is this above all that gives Sandy&#8217;s paintings his unmistakeable stamp of painterly competence, authority, and good taste.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, 31st March 2023, I had the great honour of being a student in Sandy (Alexander) Robb&#8217;s painting workshop at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries. The above preparatory painting, which I should emphasise is a work in progress, was the result, and has I think a hint of Robbishness about it in places, not that I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/?page_id=326\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alexander Robb workshop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencerfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}