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Robin Hazard-Bishop
Robin Hazard-Bishop graduated from Southern Methodist University with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. With a major in Studio Art and a minor in Art History, Hazard-Bishop combined her ability to paint, draw and make prints with her interest in the Old Masters, artists of the Italian Renaissance, and the more contemporary artists Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, and Milton Avery.
At SMU, Hazard-Bishop studied under Roger Winter who, in 1983, chose Hazard-Bishop’s early drawings to be part of the Creative Process – Drawing Symposium held at the Kimbell Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. She furthered her career in Dallas with the Dallas Women’s Caucus for the Arts and many group exhibitions.
Known for her oversized oil paintings and intensely hued abstract pastels, Hazard-Bishop’s focus has primarily centered on the landscapes of her home in Arkansas, as well her visits to the south Texas coast at Rockport. The contrast between the Arkansas and Texas landscapes is as striking as the juxtaposition of colors and shapes in her work. As opposed to the wooded terrain of Arkansas, Rockport is a small fishing town where the skies are huge, the live oaks are bent from the strong coastal winds and the bays are dotted with giant palms and wade fishermen.
“As an artist, I create images from what I see, or have seen or felt,” says Hazard-Bishop. “I try to express them in the simplest and clearest points of view, enveloping the whole experience. When I get it right, I can bring you in, send you away, or hold on to you.”
Hazard-Bishop served as the Artist in Residence for the Hot Springs National Park in December 2004, where she painted “How Small Are We?” In this painting, Hazard-Bishop expresses a personal paradox between her acknowledgement of her brief existence in this world with her profound confidence to create bold and beautiful works of art.
Hazard-Bishop has been an integral part of the Garvan Woodland Gardens Plein Air painting event in Hot Springs since it’s beginnings in 2001. “Dogwoods in the Pines,” a bold linear pastel selected for exhibition at Beauty & the Brush in 2005, exemplifies the artist’s direct and determined approach to her art. The work, measuring only 11”h x 2”w, depicts dogwoods in bloom peeking through the towering pines that touch the sky, while below a waterfall runs off the page, carrying the viewer along with it.
Hazard-Bishop now resides in Hot Springs, Arkansas with her husband John and their three dogs, Sunny, Texas Blues and Chili. She considers Arkansas to be an “artist’s oasis, an overflowing natural backdrop from which to pull subject matter. “It is what catches the artists’ eye that makes each work unique. Whether it’s the towering height of our forests, the blazing orange reds of our fall foliage, or the innocent and lazy pose of a meadow saffron—I sense each of them. It is my hope that viewers see the elements of nature that move me so strongly to create each painting.”
1955 - Born in Freeport, Texas EDUCATION SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, Dallas, Texas, 1973-1974 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, Texas, 1979 S.M.U., Dallas, Texas, 1982-1984, B.F.A. 1984
EXHIBITIONS 1983 THE CREATIVE PROCESS, Drawing Symposium, Kimbell Museum, Fort Worth, Texas 1984 B.F.A. EXHIBITION, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 1984 500 EXPOSITION, Dallas, Texas 1985 500 EXPOSITION, Dallas, Texas 1986 DALLAS WOMEN’S CAUCUS for the ARTS, Bell Telephone Museum Dallas, Texas 1987 DALLAS WOMEN’S CAUCUS for the ARTS, Upstairs Gallery, Dallas, TX 1987 BLACK AND WHITE SHOW, Upstairs Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1987 GROUP EXHIBITION, Downing Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas 1997 FEATURED ARTIST, Blue Moon Gallery, Hot Springs, Arkansas 2001 WOMEN ARTISTS, Blue Moon Gallery, Hot Springs, Arkansas 2001 AWAKENINGS OF A GARDEN, Convention Center, Hot Springs, AR 2003 SMALL AND SATURATED, Baum Gallery, UCA, Conway, Arkansas 2003FEATURED ARTIST, Blue Moon Gallery, Hot Springs, Arkansas 2003DOG DAYS at the GALLERY, Baum Gallery, UCA, Conway, Arkansas 2003CAPTURING THE GOLDENT SEASON, Garvan Woodland Gardens Plein Air, Hot Springs, Arkansas 2004FLORA BELLA, Garvan Gardens Plein Air, Hot Springs, Arkansas 2004ONE MAN SHOW - St. Vincent’s for Women & Children, Little Rock, AR 2005 ONE MAN SHOW – A.I.R., Fordyce Bath House, Hot Springs, Arkansas 2005 BEAUTY AND THE BRUSH, Garvan Woodland Gardens Plein Air Painting Event, Hot Springs, Arkansas 2005 ONE MAN SHOW - SATURATION POINT, Justus Fine Art, Hot Springs, AR 2006 BEAUTY AND THE BRUSH, Garvan Woodland Gardens Plein Air Painting Event, Hot Springs, Arkansas 2006 OUT OF THE BLUE, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2006 THE TREE SHOW, Justus Fine Art, Hot Springs, AR 2006 KALEIDOSCOPE, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2006 DIMENSIONS, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2006 AN EYE FULL, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2006 SPECTRUM, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2006 CONVERGENCE, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2007 PERSPECTIVES, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2007 OUT OF THE BLUE 2, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2007 2nd Annual, THE TREE SHOW, Justus Fine Art, Hot Springs, AR 2007 FLIP SIDE, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2007 DOWN TO EARTH, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2007 COLORBLINDED, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX 2007 BEAUTY AND THE BRUSH, Garvan Woodland Gardens Plein Air Painting Event, Hot Springs, Arkansas 2007 ARTS IN THE AIR 2007, Winthrop Rockerfeller Institute of the U of A, Morrilton, Arkansas 2008 BEAUTY AND THE BRUSH, Garvan Woodland Gardens Plein Air Painting Event, Hot Springs, Arkansas 2008 3rd Annual, THE TREE SHOW, Justus Fine Art, Hot Springs, AR 2008 VISIONARIES, Cerulean Gallery, Dallas, TX
AWARDS and HONORS 2004 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR 2005 BEAUTY AND THE BRUSH, Poster & Invitation, “Dogwoods in the Pines”
PUBLICATIONS April 1986 DALLAS LIFE MAGAZINE August 2001 AT HOME IN ARKANSAS 2001-2002 HOT SPRINGS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RELOCATION GUIDE 2006 “Spring!” Cover, THE SPRINGS MAGAZINE 2008 “Everywhere You Look,” Cover, THE SPRINGS MAGAZINE
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