Robin Whitfield

Unido: 30.oct.2014 Última actividad: 26.mar.2024 iNaturalist

Robin is an artist living and working in Grenada, Mississippi. She works on location in rivers, swamps and forests near her downtown studio and around the state. Her work explores the poetic relationships of form and color found in nature. Discovering and sharing the beauty of ecology, natural habitats and biodiversity is a driving force in her creative life. Robin works on paper with traditional watercolors and pigments gathered from the earth.

Robin graduated from Delta State University in 1996 with a BFA in Painting. She travels the south painting on public land, teaching creative workshops and giving presentations that connect people to nature.
She has been on the Mississippi Arts Commission Roster since 2006, an artist-in-residence for ArtPlace Mississippi since 2002 and an Audubon Master Naturalist of Mississippi since 2007. Her artworks and illustrations have been featured in numerous publications including “Words On Nature: a collection of writings by Eudora Welty” edited by Patti Carr-Black. She was selected to be the Artist-In Residence at Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge for the fall of 2014. Over the past decade she has been Director of Friends of Chakchiuma Swamp Natural Area.

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