Drawing on the wild skies, seas and wilderness surrounding my Shetland Island home, my paintings and sculpture are created as a response to my immersion in the ever-changing drama and beauty of the landscape. By depicting and celebrating nature I aim to express the universal and enduring relevance of nature and our evolving relationship with the environment. I use a broad variety of materials and methods, including large scale paintings incorporating metal leaf and sculptures in various media from traditional cast bronze to locally foraged, dried seaweed, mirror-polished stainless steel, and even decommissioned oil rig and a bird's wing. By embracing and incorporating the serendipitous finds from my Shetland environment I work within my locality, time and space to create works that form part of my own journey, as well as that of this island and the earth as a whole. Some works are my vision of the beauty I see all around me, others seek to open a dialogue about issues I see presenting themselves in grim reality, such as those of habitat loss, decreasing biodiversity, ghost nets/ by-catch and our relationship with the sea throughout our history. My background stems from an honour’s degree in Three-Dimensional Design and experience as a designer specialising in creating architectural interiors for hotel and restaurant clients throughout the UK. I chose to focus my creativity entirely on painting and sculpture 3 years ago and now work full time on that personal manifesto in my Shetland studio. Solo exhibitions: • The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh December 2020 • Shetland Museum, Lerwick, Shetland - June / August 2021 • The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh - December 2021 Joint exhibitions: • The Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkudbright - summer exhibition 2022 Installations • Newcastle Cathedral 2022/23. Large-scale sculptural installation. >Read here. Collaborations • 9B9 Gallery, Avenue B, New York - February 2022 An orchestral performance by Protestra and bespoke large painted backdrop by Roberta. Features / Press: • Artmag, Issue 191, November 2021 – Cover image and editorial View Here • Thesiger’s Silence, Edition 2, November 2021 – ‘The Gift’ Creative writing & photographs by Roberta • Opera News May 2021 – feature • Shetland Times, June 2021 – exhibition review • Promote Shetland website, April 2021 - review • Artist Talk Magazine, Issue 15, April 2021 – feature Memberships and Associations: • Visual Arts Scotland • Visual Artists Association • Society of Scottish Artists

Drawing on the wild skies, seas and wilderness surrounding my Shetland Island home, my paintings and sculpture are created as a response to my immersion in the ever-changing drama and beauty of the landscape. By depicting and celebrating nature I aim to express the universal and enduring relevance of nature and our evolving relationship with the environment. I use a broad variety of materials and methods, including large scale paintings incorporating metal leaf and sculptures in various media from traditional cast bronze to locally foraged, dried seaweed, mirror-polished stainless steel, and even decommissioned oil rig and a bird's wing. By embracing and incorporating the serendipitous finds from my Shetland environment I work within my locality, time and space to create works that form part of my own journey, as well as that of this island and the earth as a whole. Some works are my vision of the beauty I see all around me, others seek to open a dialogue about issues I see presenting themselves in grim reality, such as those of habitat loss, decreasing biodiversity, ghost nets/ by-catch and our relationship with the sea throughout our history. My background stems from an honour’s degree in Three-Dimensional Design and experience as a designer specialising in creating architectural interiors for hotel and restaurant clients throughout the UK. I chose to focus my creativity entirely on painting and sculpture 3 years ago and now work full time on that personal manifesto in my Shetland studio. Solo exhibitions: • The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh December 2020 • Shetland Museum, Lerwick, Shetland - June / August 2021 • The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh - December 2021 Joint exhibitions: • The Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkudbright - summer exhibition 2022 Installations • Newcastle Cathedral 2022/23. Large-scale sculptural installation. >Read here. Collaborations • 9B9 Gallery, Avenue B, New York - February 2022 An orchestral performance by Protestra and bespoke large painted backdrop by Roberta. Features / Press: • Artmag, Issue 191, November 2021 – Cover image and editorial View Here • Thesiger’s Silence, Edition 2, November 2021 – ‘The Gift’ Creative writing & photographs by Roberta • Opera News May 2021 – feature • Shetland Times, June 2021 – exhibition review • Promote Shetland website, April 2021 - review • Artist Talk Magazine, Issue 15, April 2021 – feature Memberships and Associations: • Visual Arts Scotland • Visual Artists Association • Society of Scottish Artists