Robin Chevalier A Drawing Life – beards, bicycles & sausages

Robin Chevalier loved drawing. He loved drawing so much that he could hardly stop drawing and he was pretty brilliant at drawing and painting and graphic design and photography and printmaking and cycling and sailing and cooking! You could probably safely say Robin was a creative polymath.

His work is characterised by lines. Drawn lines, printed lines, painted lines and masterful use of a limited but brilliantly applied colour palette.

Robin’s compositions are simple yet complex, with a great use of wit and subtle humour. They are quite often almost mathematical in terms of draughtsmanship but always very human. His characters seem to hark back to a golden age and yet the compositions are packed with contemporary detail and a celebration of life, machines, landscapes and wry humour. There’s a great knowledge and love of fine art, illustration and design that infuses Robin’s work, coupled with a love of beards, bicycles and sausages.

This retrospective exhibition celebrating the work of Robin Chevalier (1956-2024) has been curated by Phil Healy.