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"Calling Robert Reynolds merely a painter is a gross undersell. He's really a poet of light and shadow, a minstrel of color, and absolute master of technique..." Glen Starkey, Arts/New Times, 6/1/2000 "Normally a light, airy medium characterized by pastel colors, Reynolds demonstrates that watercolor can be as bold and rich as any other medium. These qualities he enhances through overlaying transparent glazes to achieve a wonderful, luminous quality is a hallmark of his work." Joan Sullivan, Gazette Weekend, 6/1/2000 "He really understands why he's painting and what he's painting and that painting exists on various levels. He paints in a representational manner, which means he paints things pretty natural to how they appear. But he doesn't paint everything that he sees, it's truly his vision and his emotional response to a scene." Ann Emmert Abbott, Editor Watercolor Magic Magazine 9/24/2000 "Reynolds spends hours watching the way grasses sway in a coastal breeze or how tides fill and drain estuary canals. He knows which ponds great blue herons prefer and can point to specific clumps of grass he's painted more than once..." Joe Brekke, The Tribune, Arts and Culture, 9/24/2000 "Reynolds is outstanding in his draftsmanship and his intuitive use of color, but it is his ability to portray the soul of the subject that makes his work glimmer." Lisa Angle, San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune, Focus/6/16/2000 "After writing about the work of Robert Reynolds for the past several years, I'm actually running out of superlatives. How many times can I call him a "poet of light and shadow, a minstrel of color, an absolute master of technique? Reynolds is, of course, all of these, and his new collection of 20 paintings continues his reign as the king of representational artists..." Glen Starkey, ARTS, New Times, 6/7/2001 "Reynolds finds beauty, serenity and sometimes a haunting loneliness in the quiet corners of our land where time seems to stand still." James Hayes, Exhibition Catalog, 6/1/2001 "Can art be too good? The verisimilitude of Robert Reynolds' work makes me think he's either God's right hand or in league with the devil! Look at a painting like "Secluded Stream." Water's hard to paint, but Reynolds paints it like he invented the stuff. Long hours of observation have enabled the artist to capture the essential reflections and ripples, and Reynolds' expertise with color creates a sense of the natural that is undeniable. Glen Starkey, ARTS, New Times, 5/30/2002 |