Arteomythologist - Robyn McClendon is a mixed media artist whose signature style expresses mythical storytelling through sumi brush painting, scripting, and symbols. She currently lives and works in the American Southwest.


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Robyn McClendon is a renowned mixed-media artist, and educator, celebrated for her transformative approach to fine art and creative teaching. With a career spanning over three decades, Robyn has gained national and international recognition for her innovative artwork and her contributions to the art community as a teacher and mentor. Her work resonates deeply with the philosophy of embracing the ordinary and transforming it into something extraordinary, blending elements of the everyday into poignant artistic expressions that inspire and heal.

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Intuitive Scripting

   
Intuitive Scripting, 2024

Intuitive Scripting
is the foundation of my brushwork—a movement rooted in emotion, energy, and the deep pull of memory. Each stroke is a response, a gesture made in conversation with something ancient, perhaps even mystical. The ink moves fluidly across the page in curving, sensuous lines that are both elegant and expressive, forming a visual language that feels simultaneously familiar and forgotten. There’s a generosity in the mark-making, a poetic fullness that invites the viewer into a shared space of rhythm, intuition, and visual storytelling.



“In Red” Series

 

“In Red” Series, 2024

“In Red” is a series that explores the tension between surface and symbol through the use of traditional red umi ink. Set against monoprinted backgrounds, these paintings draw on my foundational sumi brush techniques while introducing a heightened visual contrast. The red marks assert themselves—vivid, intentional, and symbolic—emerging from textured fields to initiate a striking dialogue between foreground and background. Each stroke becomes a moment of emphasis, a rhythmic pulse within the composition that carries emotional weight and the energy of sacred mark-making.



Graffiti Brush Painting




Graffiti Brush Painting, 2024

Graffiti Script
merges the fluid elegance of calligraphy with the raw energy of urban mark-making. Using traditional street materials—spray paint, paint markers, and inks—I transpose my intuitive scripting into a new context where surface, pressure, and scale shift the nature of the line itself. The result is a gestural, visceral language that bridges the ancient and the contemporary, evoking the immediacy of street expression while maintaining the sensitivity of brush and hand. These works speak in a dialect of modern glyphs, layered symbols, and visual rhythm—an urban mythology written in paint.