Robin P. Schlacter is a printmaker who creates vibrant oil-based monotypes, rich with emotional color and texture. Her monotypes create windows of color using gestural line, collage of textures and layers of intense hues which have been carefully blended. Her images resonate with movement and energy.
Schlacter draws on her experience handling many different mediums to find a new approach for very traditional printing processes. A print begins with experimentation in the viscosities of inks and incorporating found and cast off materials for creating textures in the ink. Next, Schlacter arranges papers she has hand dyed and rice papers she has embellished with Chinese brush work or graphic designs into the inks, then they are adhered to the paper with a chine colle process using the printing press. Schlacter has developed unique ways of handling these media to create innovative and spontaneous images.
Schlacter has exhibited her work in many group shows and invitational one-woman shows, including "Pastel Expressions of Southern Skies" at the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee. She has been the recipient of awards and ribbons for her work in juried shows. Purchase awards include Gaylord Opryland and Primus Financial. Her commissioned works hang in many corporate spaces and private collections throughout the United States and Canada.
Schlacter grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, graduated from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and has since resided in Tennessee. She has been a juried member of the National Association of Women Artists in New York, NY since 1993 and is a member of the Tennessee Art League.
