Robin Braun
"Rousseau’s magical dreamworld, minus the sleeping gypsy"

Robin Braun wanted to be a painter for as long as she can remember. Thinking that painting wasn’t an actual profession, she concentrated on achieving a liberal arts degree instead. When she later worked in the curatorial department at the San Francisco Museum of Art, she realized that she could, indeed, make a living focused on her creative side. For two years she worked on developing a portfolio and then “by some miracle,” she says, was accepted into the graduate school at the University of Iowa.

Since that time, Robin’s miniatures (most paintings barely larger than a postcard) are divided into hauntingly beautiful oceanscapes based on the east coast of the United States near her native Annapolis home and insects frolicking in marshy wonderlands and the mountains of Monticello near where she currently lives.

Philadelphia Inquirer Art Critic Ed Sozanski has praised Robin’s oil paintings as "exquisite images (that) recall in miniature the sublime landscapes of the mid 19th century.” Roberta Fallon, Art Critic for the Philadelphia Weekly, has commented more descriptively that Robin Braun’s work is filled with “lush tropical scenes reminiscent of Rousseau’s magical dreamworld, minus the sleeping gypsy.”

"Untitled 1"



"Untitled 2"

"Chincoteague Beach"

"Chincoteague" (Yellow Sky)

"Cincoteague" (Small Version)

"Mountaintop Farm with Moon"

"Mountaintop Farm with Star"

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