Robert Clinch's opalescent egg-tempera paintings and beautifully hand drawn lithographs are expressions of a seemingly realistic, but fictional world. These timeless images draw their sense of place and tactility from plein-air observation, yet have a singular, poetic intensity that moves us far beyond the simple rendering of real locations.

Clinch's realism is the accessible medium with which he speaks to us, about our loneliness, joy, humour and melancholy; about our yearning for loss of innocence, playfulness and whimsy; and observes the issues that arise from our impatience, injustice, negligence and the relentless consumption of the planet.