Robert Grantham Art · Austin, Texas

Contemporary paintings built from color, pressure, memory, and place.

I make original acrylic paintings that explore resilience, symbolic form, and the emotional architecture of color. The work is direct, layered, and made to hold a room without merely behaving in it.

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Aurum Rising, an abstract acrylic painting by Robert Grantham — *Aurum Rising*, 2026 · Acrylic on canvas · 24×30×1.5 in

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Original paintings

A focused selection of current and collected work, each documented with materials, dimensions, finish, and status.

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Conjunctions

Conjunction at the Interchange

12×12×1.5 in·Acrylic on canvas

$360

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Aurum Rising — acrylic on canvas with a luminous gold seam against dark fields

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Featured Originals

Aurum Rising

24×30×1.5 in·Acrylic on canvas

$1,250

Gold breaks through the dark like a vow you can’t unmake.

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The Judge's Dance — square abstract acrylic painting with concentric orange and gold rings on red and blue, a pale central orb, seven dark orbiting bodies including one split half-black and half-white, and a row of black silhouetted dancing figures along a dark arc at the base

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Conjunctions

The Judge's Dance

12×12 in·Acrylic on canvas

$360

Seven bodies orbit a pale sun while, beneath them, the dancing goes on.

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Threshold

Threshold of Heat

12×12 in (5/8 in depth)·Acrylic on canvas

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A charged red field where pressure, structure, and heat push against one another.

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Magnolia Canticle

Magnolia Canticle, No. 3

16×20×1.5 in·Acrylic on canvas

$555

Handwritten light, layered resilience—continued.

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The Lonely Pier — square acrylic seascape in deep blues, a dark pier on cross-braced pilings reaching from the left edge, its reflection broken across the water, a wave curling toward the right, three birds, and a bank of cloud over a pale horizon

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Selected Works

The Lonely Pier

12×12×1.5 in·Acrylic on canvas

A structure built for crowds, painted at the hour nobody comes.

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Current language

Series rather than isolated tricks

The studio develops ideas across bodies of work: the orbiting forms and divided fields of Conjunctions, the Southern memory and symbolic bloom of Magnolia Canticle, and the compressed architectural tensions of Threshold.

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Series Conjunctions Orbiting bodies, divided fields, gold passage Series Magnolia Canticle Memory, bloom, scar, and endurance Series Threshold Passage, structure, pressure, and release

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A painting should do more than fill a wall.

Commissioned work begins with dimensions, the character of the space, a working budget, and an honest conversation about what the painting needs to accomplish.

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