Robert Woledge

The love of female shapes and a convergence of figurative abstraction, Cloisonnism and Expressionism

Robert Woledge - figurative abstract artist female shapes

All my work is figurative, abstract and partly inspired by expressionism and cloisonnism. I’m fascinated by shape, posture, movement, dance and body language and how this can create narrative.

I oscillate between loose palette knife impasto work which I aim to leave unresolved and ambiguous enough to leave plenty for the viewer to find. And more graphical abstraction where the use of line can conceal as much as it reveals.

Freud and later Alfred Kinsey suggested it is impossible for most artists to separate their sexuality from their creativity. I believe what the viewer is able to see in my work reveals as much about them and this is quite possibly the root of my artistic enquiry. figurative abstract artist female shapes artist erotic original painting