Robbin Yager was born in Ontario but grew up in Alberta, where she walked train rails and roamed the woods playing cowboy. The contact with wild things influenced her and she developed a great respect for the workings of nature.
Art school taught her to emulate minimalism and adore abstract expressionism, but light and colour became the greatest influences on her etchings and drawings. After graduating she travelled to India and Nepal. Upon returning, she worked at various museums and galleries across Canada.
Yager has lived and worked as an artist in Toronto, Vancouver and now Calgary, where she has established Push Pull Press, which produces hand-pulled intaglio prints.
Collected and exhibited across Canada, her prints have also been shown in the USA, Finland and Peru. In Toronto, Geraldine Davis represents Yager’s prints and drawings, which reflect a respect for nature and the right of the natural world to determine its own existence.
Horizon 30/75
Robbin Yager
Zinc etching
41 x 33 cm.
Value: $190.00
Rental per month: $5.00
“Earth, rock, river, cloud, light, wind, breath, flesh. It is acknowledged; these things are still unknown.”
In her experience of walking through landscape, Yager’s self-awareness at first involves a certain amount of alienation. This has always puzzled her. As a member of the human species she has inherited the ability and the will to separate nature from that which created it. For her, landscape embodies most effectively all that she does not know.
The print Horizon is tacked together with several elements she has reworked many times: the cloud, the tree and, and unobtrusively, the horizon line. This print plays with the idea that a horizon, which is normally more definite, can be subject purely from a point of view. This horizon then is playing with one simple unknown found in landscape.