Episode 107: Robin Jones, Nos Galan Gaeaf

Episode 107: Robin Jones, Nos Galan Gaeaf

From Blue Rain Gallery Podcast by Blue Rain Gallery

November 1, 2025 · 17 min · Season 5 · Episode 107

About this episode

Leroy Garcia interviews painter Robin Jones about her exhibition inspired by Celtic ancestry and the interplay between the spiritual and physical worlds.

In this episode of the Blue Rain Gallery Podcast, host Leroy Garcia speaks with painter Robin Jones about her newest exhibition, Nos Galan Gaeaf—a series inspired by Celtic ancestry, animism, and the thin veil between the spiritual and physical worlds. Jones discusses how researching her Welsh, Irish, and Scottish roots shaped this collection, and how her portraits of adolescent girls exist at a powerful threshold—between childhood and adulthood, the modern world and the ancestral, the living world and spirit. Nature becomes an active presence in the work: dragonflies, birds, stone cathedrals, ocean winds, and crumbling architecture all carry energy and symbolism. Throughout the conversation, Robin explains her animistic worldview, her process of creating environments alive with “personhood,” and why she uses architecture and sacred sites from Celtic lands to deepen the storytelling in her paintings. Leroy and Robin also explore themes of environmental stewardship, cultural inheritance, and how young people—especially young women—embody the future.  View available work by Robin Jones: https://blueraingallery.com/artists/robin-jones/view-all Subscribe to the Blue Rain Gallery…

People in this episode

Host: Leroy Garcia

Guest: Robin Jones

Topics covered

  • Celtic ancestry
  • animism
  • spirituality
  • environmental stewardship
  • cultural inheritance
  • artistic process

Keywords

  • Celtic
  • animism
  • art
  • environment
  • adolescent girls
  • spirituality
  • cultural roots

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blue Rain Gallery, Blue Rain Gallery Podcast

Books & works: Nos Galan Gaeaf

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