American Painter
Born: TX, 1948
medium: oil on canvas
Kearby Roberts began painting as a child, encouraged by her father, also an oil painter. Studies were continued through private instruction and high school curriculum. She attended Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas electing to study with Jerry Newman and John Alexander, both renowned artists.
After leaving university, Kearby moved to Kenya. For the next several years, she accompanied her husband on safari throughout East Africa, painting landscape, wildlife and people of the region. This early experience of the profound beauty of Africa set the the course for her commitment to create beauty in her work as opposed to political or nihilistic art so prevalent in the 1970's.
Three years later, she moved to London where she worked in the House of Commons as an assistant to various members of Parliment. This was a unique opportunity to travel throughout the U.K. and Europe, studying in the great museums and galleries. after five years in London, in 1980, she returned to the United States and made her way to New York City.
In New York, she persued her painting while working in advertising. Several years were spent studying at the Art Students League of New York with focus on life painting and drawing. It was at this time that Kearby began to paint as an expressionist. She showed and sold her work in New York during the the ten years she spent in the city.
She returned to her native Houston in 1990 and established a permanent studio. There have been series on mythical women symbolized in abstract landscapes and fantasy landscapes based on European Renaissance. Her work is an inquiry into the underlying energy of life and nature as a metaphor for spiritual awakening. Her new series, "Came to Believe", is based in the philosophy of turning our will and our lives over to a Higher Power and trusting that our needs will be fulfilled through such an act of surrender.
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