RJack Art

05/26/2026

New Work! “Rupture” 18X5.5 feet. Mixed media on canvas.

05/26/2026

“Rupture” - when the vessel cannot hold any longer. 18X5.5 feet mixed media on upcycled canvas. A response to grief and love.

05/22/2026

When grief has a moment to rise, and the body vessel holds too much, but the fear of letting it out is paralyzing, this artist still has to stand in front of that substrate and walk-through, not around, but into that space. There is no other option. New work in progress, 12X5 feet.

05/12/2026

Curious about what I’ve been working on lately? I’m honored to be featured in the latest Voyage LA article, Life & Work with Robin Jack Sarner of Rancho Palos Verdes, where I share more about my artistic practice, creative journey, and current projects.

Thank you to Voyage LA for the thoughtful feature. Full Interview link below.

Today we'd like to introduce you to Robin Jack Sarner. Hi Robin, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?I was always an artist, though my path also included careers in employee benefits sales, teaching art, and raising a family over the last two decades. Retu

05/09/2026

“The Hole That Remains” is a shift in my ongoing Hold/Held series, where questions of containment and emotional restraint have given way to a much more unstable and vulnerable place.

Recent personal loss altered not only the emotional content of the work, but the conditions under which it is made. I found myself less interested in controlling emotion than in witnessing what happens when the body can no longer contain it, when grief exceeds structure and begins to spill outward.

What is so interesting in my grief journey, and how it has changed the direction of this body of work, is my relationship to intuition itself. Where earlier paintings move quickly with instinct, and sometimes pour outward immaturely, this piece emerged through pauses, reconsideration, and prolonged stillness.

Grief introduced a new awareness into the studio: sometimes emotion does not produce movement, it’s suspend it.

By allowing myself vulnerability and silence… an “unfinished feeling” remains present rather than some sort of certainty of finalized work. This concept is very new for me and I’m learning to embrace it. Thank you to so many for your comfort and encouragement, know that it has made a difference. 😘 70X60 on canvas.

05/03/2026

I always thought art would be the place I go to process everything.

Right now, I can’t get there.

This is something I wrote about grief, stillness, and what happens when the work doesn’t come.

https://rjsarner.substack.com/p/i-cannot-make-a-mark?r=elsms

04/05/2026

Something BIG is happening in the studio.

On scale, self-trust, and finding a rhythm inside the work

04/02/2026

Large canvas painters have very real problems…

Like:
• How far can I jump without landing in wet ground?
• How fast can I move before it starts drying?
• How long can I hold this stretch before I fall over?

Also: why is everything I own suddenly XXL—rollers, buckets, brushes, scaffolding…

And most importantly: constantly negotiating with my dog about what is not a bed.

10 x 8 ft. Clear ground on raw canvas.

Wouldn’t trade it for anything. 😛💪😂

03/29/2026

Had a fun day reworking an old painting. She has no name yet, any thoughts?

Materials are from my grandmother Jack’s farm, local nautical maps, ski brochures from the 80’s, Thomas Guide pages, plaster, head of a rusty rake I found while hiking, newsprint, wall paper, wrapping paper and sewing pattern paper. Phew! 😮‍💨

Inspired by Rauschenberg

03/15/2026

No. 3 in the Hold/Held series. Learning to illustrate compression. Challenging on these small 12X12 pieces of paper, but rewarding!