Robyn Bragg
Artist
Robyn is a mixed media artist and mother of two. She studied Psychology at the University of Guelph, and Painting and Graphic Design at the Cleveland Institute of Art. After a 20-year career as a Graphic Designer and User Experience Consultant she is now a full-time artist. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the US and Finland.
Robyn works in collage, encaustics, and paint. Her art is rooted in her psychology background and love of storybooks, myths, and archetypal imagery. She uses 19th Century engravings and illustrations to evoke the world of symbols, dreams and the unconscious.
Her work deals with the challenge of anxiety, which seeks protection from uncertainty and chaos within the certainty of order. She explores the shelter afforded by the ordered systems of architecture, grids, and patterns. She asks: when does enclosing oneself in safety become a prison, where one is afraid to break out and take risks? Can one step out of rigidity to be more free?
