Meet Edie

Edie Roberson is an academically trained artist who has produced fine art for more than seven decades. In addition to her extensive “Post Modern” work, Roberson is also known for her trompe-l’oeil paintings which “fool-the-eye”. That is, it becomes hard to tell where the two dimensional painting ends and the three dimensional real world begins, but her unique style has evolved over the decades and has slipped the bounds of traditional artistic categorization. Her pieces range from colorful impressionistic natural landscapes, to super-realistic still-life, to ethereal free-flight through cloud-filled dreamscapes, to light-hearted parties and gatherings of various human, animal and antique toy “beings”.

Although the majority of her art takes the form of two dimensional paintings (primarily acrylic, oils, pastels, pencil and watercolor), she also creates three dimensional works including sculptures, custom frames for her paintings and 3D “paintings”.  More recently, she has ventured into the fourth dimension with her moving automata creations. She is represented by David Ericson Fine Art located in Salt Lake City.

Edie loves classical music and used to listen to it as she worked. She’s since abandoned that practice because she realized she was so focused on her paintings she didn’t even hear it. So music, for her, has a separate time and place. Her work is famous for its whimsy. She said the trick to channeling whimsy is to not channel it at all. “It may get crazier,” she said. “I don’t know where it’s going to go. I just go with it.” She adopts the same attitude when it comes to listening to music. When we approached her with the theme for Utah Chamber Artists’ season this year, “Where does music take you?” Her answer was simply, “Music takes me along for the ride.”

 Follow the Leader, by Edie Roberson.