Hill Climb

Robin Hollingdrake is a Mississauga based artist who works with acrylic paint. She finds inspiration from everyday immersion in the arts and creates abstract pieces from this.

Robin was born in 1953 in the western suburbs of Toronto. Robin received early and constant encouragement from her mother, Patience Morrisey a graduate of the Ontario College of Art, who kept a very active painting, print making and ceramics studio going. Her grandmother Mabel Harris was a gifted painter and draughts person schooled at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. Robin's sister Catherine Morrsiey is a landscape painter and has a significant profile in the arts community in London, Ontario. Robin attended the Ontario College of Peel Region with special gifts. She attended the Ontario College of Art from 1971 to 1973 and won the Reeves and Sons Scholarship Award in 1972. She also attended Sheridan College School of Crafts and Design from which she graduated in 1978 from the Ceramics Program.