Robine Clignett focuses on the effect of colour. For her, colours are independent entities; personalities with a particular character that can evoke their own series of associations. They unite the unfathomably deep, like the night or the universe, with the small and near, like the part of our eye capable of perceiving colour.
She titles her pieces with vocables such as midnight, dawn, and dusk to establish a link between specific colours and certain times of the day and night, thus concretising them. Yet she sees colour in her work not so much as tool for literal representation, but rather as the expression of something absolute to which the viewer has to surrender.