Watercolour monotype, 34 × 30cm
Robbie Fife’s paintings and prints are carefully constructed, featuring an intriguing array of subjects including toy-like towers that become rockets, mysterious figures, and sharks. A course in Indian miniature painting, and the architecture of the Spanish landscape have profoundly influenced Robbie’s practice resulting in gently surreal works that are rich in surface pattern and narrative.
This framed watercolour monotype is part of ‘Hidden Nature’, Robbie’s solo exhibition and online collection of works launched in November 2025 by Oliver Projects Gallery. It is part of a larger body which continues to explore Robbie’s interest in the rural life and mysterious characters of his homeland in North Yorkshire. Snails, birds, rats, eggs, men in flat caps, and figures practicing martial arts - under the watchful gaze of flowers - all feature in these gently surreal images. He says; ‘for me, all these beings, places, happenings and activities are connected’. ‘Breakfast Table Visitors’ features a bird pecking multicoloured grain on a table-top, below a hovering mystical sphere.
This unique work is numbered 1/1 and signed on the front - please see example image.
Fife graduated with an MFA in painting from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2014. He has exhibited widely in the UK. Exhibitions include; Nightswimming, LLE @ Mission Gallery, Swansea, 2018; Sightseers, g39, Cardiff, 2018; Outhouse (solo), May Project, Brook Green, London, 2016. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut, USA in November/December 2015 and Carraig-na-gcat, Ireland in September 2019. In 2021, Oliver Projects presented a solo exhibition of Robbie’s work, ‘Kist’, in London, and exhibited monotypes at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Robbie has recently relocated from south east London to Yorkshire.
Watercolour monotype, 34 × 30cm
Robbie Fife’s paintings and prints are carefully constructed, featuring an intriguing array of subjects including toy-like towers that become rockets, mysterious figures, and sharks. A course in Indian miniature painting, and the architecture of the Spanish landscape have profoundly influenced Robbie’s practice resulting in gently surreal works that are rich in surface pattern and narrative.
This framed watercolour monotype is part of ‘Hidden Nature’, Robbie’s solo exhibition and online collection of works launched in November 2025 by Oliver Projects Gallery. It is part of a larger body which continues to explore Robbie’s interest in the rural life and mysterious characters of his homeland in North Yorkshire. Snails, birds, rats, eggs, men in flat caps, and figures practicing martial arts - under the watchful gaze of flowers - all feature in these gently surreal images. He says; ‘for me, all these beings, places, happenings and activities are connected’. ‘Breakfast Table Visitors’ features a bird pecking multicoloured grain on a table-top, below a hovering mystical sphere.
This unique work is numbered 1/1 and signed on the front - please see example image.
Fife graduated with an MFA in painting from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2014. He has exhibited widely in the UK. Exhibitions include; Nightswimming, LLE @ Mission Gallery, Swansea, 2018; Sightseers, g39, Cardiff, 2018; Outhouse (solo), May Project, Brook Green, London, 2016. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut, USA in November/December 2015 and Carraig-na-gcat, Ireland in September 2019. In 2021, Oliver Projects presented a solo exhibition of Robbie’s work, ‘Kist’, in London, and exhibited monotypes at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. Robbie has recently relocated from south east London to Yorkshire.
