Watercolour monotype with hand-colouring, 32 × 26cm
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 and men in flat caps - under the watchful gaze of flowers - all feature in these gently surreal images. The motif of a loop or ring runs through this body of work symbolising continuity - here, it takes the form of a harlequin-patterned worm with its tail in its mouth.
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 with hand-colouring, 32 × 26cm
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 and men in flat caps - under the watchful gaze of flowers - all feature in these gently surreal images. The motif of a loop or ring runs through this body of work symbolising continuity - here, it takes the form of a harlequin-patterned worm with its tail in its mouth.
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.
