Robin Kappy
Drawing
Painting
Robin Kappy received her undergraduate degree from Parsons School of Design. She began her art career in the 1970's as a commercial artist and illustrator for companies such as McGraw Hill, Bankers Trust, TWA and others. She changed her focus when she became a licensed social worker and psychotherapist in 1991.
Working primarily from life, Robin is known for her “subway portraits,” portraits, still lives and landscape paintings. Her work has won awards and appeared in numerous venues, including groups shows at the Longyear Gallery; ArtUp Gallery; Galli Curci Theater Gallery; Dolce Valvo Gallery; Atlantic Gallery; The Gallery at Eisenberg’s; the National Arts Club; the Salmagundi Club; Fishs Eddy Gallery; 61 Main Gallery; Commons Gallery and a solo show at Chelsea Classical Studio Gallery. Robin participated in the Hudson River Fellowship in 2013. She has received two honorable mentions in “American Artist Drawing Magazine” and was honored to have her painting ""Carried Forward"" selected for inclusion in a 2017 issue of PoetsArtists Magazine.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
As both a painter and a psychotherapist, I am drawn to the threshold between the outer landscape and one’s inner life. In my creative process, I view aesthetic experience as a state of presence, emotional restoration, and deeper meaning.
As an artist, I create drawings and paintings that explore the transformative power of art and art-making. My work invites the viewer in witnessing qualities not merely seen, but felt: stillness, movement, spaciousness, and reflection.
Working within the portrait and landscape painting traditions, I use layered tones and colors to evoke the softness of distance, the hush of twilight and close observation of natural forms. I am not seeking to portray a literal place, but to evoke a portal where viewers can slow down, breathe, and enter expansive and eternal spaces.
I am continually moved by the mystery of how a painting takes shape and an artist evolves. My work lives at the intersection of observation and resonance—an invitation to notice what is essential and enduring.
Directions
FROM MARGARETVILLE: Route 28 N to Andes, go 3.4 miles to Left on Route 30 then 3.3 miles to Right on Lower Dingle Hill Road, then 2.8 miles to right on Upper Dingle Hill Road. Go .2 miles right on Davis Hollow Road then 1.1 miles to house (1106) on right. Please go up the hill just past the house on the right. FROM ANDES: Route 1 past Ballentine Park on Right, go 1.3 Miles to left on Upper Dingle Hill Road then 2 miles to left on Davis Hollow Road. Go 1.1 miles to house (1106) on right. Please go up the hill just past the house on the right.
Robin Kappy
Drawing
Painting
Directions
FROM MARGARETVILLE: Route 28 N to Andes, go 3.4 miles to Left on Route 30 then 3.3 miles to Right on Lower Dingle Hill Road, then 2.8 miles to right on Upper Dingle Hill Road. Go .2 miles right on Davis Hollow Road then 1.1 miles to house (1106) on right. Please go up the hill just past the house on the right. FROM ANDES: Route 1 past Ballentine Park on Right, go 1.3 Miles to left on Upper Dingle Hill Road then 2 miles to left on Davis Hollow Road. Go 1.1 miles to house (1106) on right. Please go up the hill just past the house on the right.
Robin Kappy received her undergraduate degree from Parsons School of Design. She began her art career in the 1970's as a commercial artist and illustrator for companies such as McGraw Hill, Bankers Trust, TWA and others. She changed her focus when she became a licensed social worker and psychotherapist in 1991.
Working primarily from life, Robin is known for her “subway portraits,” portraits, still lives and landscape paintings. Her work has won awards and appeared in numerous venues, including groups shows at the Longyear Gallery; ArtUp Gallery; Galli Curci Theater Gallery; Dolce Valvo Gallery; Atlantic Gallery; The Gallery at Eisenberg’s; the National Arts Club; the Salmagundi Club; Fishs Eddy Gallery; 61 Main Gallery; Commons Gallery and a solo show at Chelsea Classical Studio Gallery. Robin participated in the Hudson River Fellowship in 2013. She has received two honorable mentions in “American Artist Drawing Magazine” and was honored to have her painting ""Carried Forward"" selected for inclusion in a 2017 issue of PoetsArtists Magazine.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
As both a painter and a psychotherapist, I am drawn to the threshold between the outer landscape and one’s inner life. In my creative process, I view aesthetic experience as a state of presence, emotional restoration, and deeper meaning.
As an artist, I create drawings and paintings that explore the transformative power of art and art-making. My work invites the viewer in witnessing qualities not merely seen, but felt: stillness, movement, spaciousness, and reflection.
Working within the portrait and landscape painting traditions, I use layered tones and colors to evoke the softness of distance, the hush of twilight and close observation of natural forms. I am not seeking to portray a literal place, but to evoke a portal where viewers can slow down, breathe, and enter expansive and eternal spaces.
I am continually moved by the mystery of how a painting takes shape and an artist evolves. My work lives at the intersection of observation and resonance—an invitation to notice what is essential and enduring.
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