Watershed, Mixed Media Photography

The Original

Watershed by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media photography from the Albertine Series. I created this piece using my original photography that has not been digitally altered, acrylic medium and gold. 

The framed piece measures 25×26.5″. Shipping will be calculated based on location.  Please note that colours and contrast vary between different monitors.  The colours may not match your monitor’s display exactly. Additionally, copyright of my artwork does not transfer with purchase.

The Inspiration for Watershed by Robin Rivers

Through the Albertine series, I wanted to explore how memory and time fragment, reconstructing themselves into spaces that live vividly in our experience, even when they are not a faithful representation of the original. Watershed combines an image of the gatehouse and a creek on the ground of Chateau d’Orquevaux in the Champagne-Ardene region of France. Robin shot and hand-treated the photography. This piece explores the isolation of loneliness and longing that Albertine experiences, unable to return to Henri in Paris. The gatehouse is her safety and her prison, a reflection of the familial and social structures that keep people apart.

The Artist

Robin Rivers is an artist, photographer, and writer who creates from conversations with ancient ponds and old trees, spirits of place and old ones whose lost stories want to be told. As a mixed-media artist, Rivers works with original photography, museum archives, and storytelling to give form to the old ones who speak to her through dreams, deep listening, and walking the land in ancient places. Her practice weaves together mystical guidance and archival research, creating magical pieces that restore powerful lost connections and stories rising up once again. Robin creates all pieces at Studio Albertine in Vancouver, Canada—on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. This includes the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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