Carol Robertson studied at Cardiff College of Art 1974-78 followed by an MA in 1980-81 from Chelsea School of Art. She was awarded the Boise scholarship to Italy. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the UK and Europe, also in Japan and the USA. Since 2001 she has been a Returning Fellow at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. In 2012 she was artist in residence at the Kunstgarten in Graz, where she made 3D objects for the first time. In 2014 she published a book with her husband, Carol Robertson & Trevor Sutton - French Paintings in response to a series of residencies in the Midi Pyrenees region. She is also a prolific printmaker, producing her latest series of monoprints, Copán in 2015, influenced by a trip to Central America.
Her pantings remain firmly rooted within reductive abstract conventions. Although she doesn't seek to confirm or record the way the world looks, her work is never disconnected from it. She continues to make an informal relationship with landscape, architecture, nature and the environment.
"The circle is the most archetypal of all the forms I use: it has universal resonance, so frequently found in art, architecture and ritual: an evocation of the universe and the heavans: the journey inwards, or outward, to or from the centre: a symbol of wholeness, completion and infinity: the unbroken line with no beginning or end: the eternal cycle".