Welcome, W. Earl Robinson!

ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life. . . You were made with a purpose. Og Mandino
Willie Earl Robinson, born November 30, 1950, in Yazoo city, Mississippi, but grew up in Jonestown, Mississippi. As far back as I can remember I’ve had a fascination with Visual art, even at the age of two or three years old. During my years in middle school I cut my teeth on drawing the marvel comic book characters. After I dropped out of school I was drafted into the military. Leaving the military I moved into the Robert Taylor Housing Project on Chicago’s south side .on December 24th 1972 I was shot in the left eye with a 38 special, in an attempt to protect another person .the bullet missed by a fraction of an inch the part of the brain that governs the breathing and heart beat. {How many can sustain a 38 caliber gun shot wound in eye and live to talk about it rationally? That’s a miracle. I was left partially paralyzed on my left side, now I was left with no other alternative but to paint on the walls of that apartment .It was during this time that I discovered my Purpose in life, and my gift as an artist. I painted on every wall in that apartment, and when I ran out of wall space, I white walled and Continued painting.
W. Earl Robinson



ARTIST’S STATEMENT

"Gifted and endowed by God, coupled with hard work, brought me to where I am as an artist. Art illuminates my world. My artistic vision is to create images that reveal the beauty within and beyond myself. What I feel, see, and hear, somehow come together in a multidimensional way. I love the creative ability that God has given me, and I give Him all the glory. I feel most alive when I paint. All of my senses are engaged, and I respond to, and I feel moved by, and into something larger than myself .I received no academic training in art, therefore I take the creative approach exclusively, which results in a vital individualistic style of expression."

W Earl Robinson