Robin Williamson OPA

Robin Williamson is an award-winning artist living and working in Texas. She is also the founder of the Davinci Studios.  She is best known for her refined, delicate, and realistic style of painting in oils. After a successful career in Information Technology, Robin “retired” to raise her three children. While doing so, she re-ignited a life-long love affair with art and took her first formal oil-painting classes. She was hooked. Since then, she has fervently pursued both education and easel time to continue to hone her skills. She is passionate about art education and has studied with some of today’s leading figurative artists such as Max Ginsberg, Anthony Ryder, Robert  Liberace, Joshua LaRock, Jordan Sokol, and Oliver Sin. She is a graduate of Johnnie Liliedahl’s School of Classical Oil Painting, and has studied at Studio Incamminati, Scottsdale Artist’s School, The Ryder Studio, and The Coppini Academy. She also holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Texas A&M University and Southern Methodist University. 

Robin’s desire is to glorify her Creator by reproducing the beauty of life around her. Painting people is her first love. She is intrigued by people of all walks of life, who do everything from the mundane to the extraordinary.  She particularly enjoys painting dancers because it combines her love of painting the figure with her love of dance. She is equally adept at still-life painting, and finds it an exciting challenge to capture the realistic look of inanimate objects. Robin’s artistic influences are some of the great master figurative painters such as William A. Bouguereau, John Singer Sargent, Rembrandt van Rijn, Ilya Repin, and of course Leonardo Da Vinci, an engineer, artist, and musician. 

Robin is a Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America, the National Oil and Acrylic Painter’s Society, and American Women Artists, and is a BoldBrush sponsored artist. She is a member of the Portrait Society of America and the the Cecilia Beaux Forum, which promotes and supports women in the figurative arts. Robin serves as a board member for the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society and is the Texas State Co-Ambassador for the Portrait Society of America.  She has won numerous national and international awards and her work has been featured in International Artist, Southwest Art, and American Art Collector Magazines.