ABOUT
Hi there! I’m Robyn, the artist behind Water Cycle Colors. My art is inspired by earth, life, water, and ecosystems. I usually interpret landscapes through soft colors, block-y simplified shapes, and negative space, though I try to push myself to try new things often.
Water is fascinating to me in ways that are challenging to fully explain in words. Water is life. And also plays a role in so many abiotic processes that support life and shape the earth as we know it. Nurturing. Destructive. A force to be reckoned with. Home.
Water pulled me towards studying environmental/water resources engineering, then pulled me away from a desk and into streams and lakes and wetlands, collecting data as a field scientist.
Interestingly enough, I wasn’t always a fan of watercolors. After finding acrylics during high school, I cast aside watery chaos in favor of layering my way to realism. But eventually water pulled me back in.
Once I got into plein air (outdoor) watercolor sketching, I quickly outpaced my ability to send art postcards to friends and started accumulating piles of art.
Around the same time I started following some really neat artists on Instagram. Artists who, like me, didn’t study art in college or plan on “being an artist” but found themselves being one anyways.
I started thinking about sharing my art and selling my art. Thinking about why I was interested in sharing and selling art. Thinking about whether that would take away the fun for me.
I thought about the joy I feel when I see other people’s art that I connect with. And about how it’s really not about the technical skill displayed in a piece as much as it’s about the feeling it creates. And about how art doesn’t even have to connect with everyone who sees it. Even if only a small sliver of people who see a piece of art connect with it, that’s still more joy in the world and more joy is a good thing. (Besides, I have no intention to stop being a scientist so I could always stop if it stops being fun.)
I’m still finding and creating my own path to being an artist. I’m really interested in finding ways to connect people to science through art and I don’t know exactly what that is going to look like for me yet. But I am here. I’ve planted my seeds and I’m watering them and I’m excited to see where they grow.