John Robinson was born in Worcester in 1981, where he still resides. His aim is to use his ‘self portrait’ images as a way of making himself indestructible, to make himself slip out of time, to confront the things he loves and hates and to pour time into the surfaces of the paintings. To transcend himself whilst constantly being held up against the past.

Robinson studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts (awarded First class honours) spending most of the time whilst there skipping tutorials to travel to Plymouth to be taught by the notorious and idiosyncratic painter Robert Lenkiewicz, who ignited an interest in how to evoke colour through grey alongside wider interest in occult literature and artwork experienced in Lenkiewicz’s famed private library. Robinson was awarded the Richard Ford Scholarship by the Royal Academy of Arts and spent a summer as artist in residence at the Prado Museum Madrid absorbing the works of Velazquez and Goya alongside the city’s nightlife. He stayed in Madrid for a further decade broken by a year at Central Saint Martins on a Masters degree in fine art.