As a teenager, I worked as a janitor to help pay my way through private high school. A janitor knows a room differently than the guests at a party. He works after others have left, often alone—largely invisible, but present at the moment when a room might tilt back into possibility.

I paint ordinary interior spaces from direct observation. These are spaces shaped by function and efficiency, yet their apparent coherence can loosen the closer I look. By reframing and recomposing what I see, I try to make that uncertainty visible. Shifts in spatial relationships and the atmospheric effects of light bring it into focus.

One common thread that runs through all of Robinson’s work is a complex psychology-a tension and depth of feeling that results from intense and perceptive observation. In his paintings feelings become graspable. Robinson’s subjects are evocative and dream like, but they also exist right in front of you.

- Artist Brett Baker