Robin Siegl paints with oils and draws with charcoal. Currently she is inspired by the shapes and surfaces she observes on the working waterfront in Seattle.
Robin has always made art, primarily drawing and painting in water-based media. In 2006 she switched to painting with oils and rented a studio to pursue painting seriously. She is drawn both to the industrial waterfront and the landscape. Robin’s studio is in Building C, a converted 1910-era warehouse that is now home to two-dozen professional artists. Building C is located in an industrial neighborhood that includes a mile of working waterfront along the Ballard Ship Canal, a Seattle waterway that connects Puget Sound to Lake Washington. Robin studied art at The University of Puget Sound and the University of Washington. She has studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC with William Christenberry; in Seattle at Gage Academy of Art with Gary Faigin, Elizabeth Beemster, Barbara Fugate and John Rizzotto; at Pratt Fine Art Center with Robin Smith, Joan Ross, Gini Lawson, and Julia Hensley. Robin continues to seek out classes that will inspire fresh approaches to her work. Within the past two years Robin's paintings have appeared in eight juried shows and several group exhibits. In August one of her paintings, Midships, was awarded First Place at the Commencement Bay Maritime Museum in Tacoma.
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