Australian artist Robert Clinch contemporary realist painter of remarkable urban capriccios, is represented by Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney and Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York.
Clinch’s striking imagery transports the viewer to a fictional but hauntingly real world; telling accessible tales of loneliness, joy, injustice, humour, melancholy and whimsy.
In keeping with his neo-renaissance use of Egg Tempera, Clinch works entirely from drawings, often executed at numerous locations and then adapted for composition in the studio.
Clinch has completed many major commissions, including works for; The National Gallery of Victoria, The Ian Potter Museum (Melbourne University), Frank Lowy (Westfield Holdings) and Lindsay Fox (Linfox Transport).

Lithography
Lithography was the first fundamentally new printing technology since the invention of relief printing in the fifteenth century. It is a mechanical planographic process in which the printing and non-printing areas of the plate are all at the same level, as opposed to intaglio and relief processes in which the design is cut into the printing block. Lithography is based on the chemical repellence of oil and water. Designs are drawn or painted with greasy ink or crayons on specially prepared limestone. The stone is moistened with water, which the stone accepts in areas not covered by the crayon. An oily ink, applied with a roller, adheres only to the drawing and is repelled by the wet parts of the stone. The print is then made by pressing paper against the inked drawing.

Robert Clinch’s prints are made by master printer Peter Lancaster of Lancaster Press in Melbourne