Claudy‑born artist Yasmine Robinson is proud to have launched her first solo exhibition on the North West landscape at Derry’s Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), describing the moment as a full‑circle experience.

Yasmine described her calling to art as something she couldn’t ignore. She attended the Belfast School of Art before completing a master’s in Fine Art in London, where she lived for five years. She later returned to the North West to teach foundational fine art at Ulster University.

Now with her first solo exhibition in Derry’s Centre for Contemporary Art she has described it as a ‘real pivotal mark’ in art career.

Yasmine said: “Having an exhibition in the north west I feel very strongly about because the work is very connected to the landscape. Even though it is quite abstract I feel quite passionate about the work.

“I am very grateful to the CCA for giving me the opportunity to exhibit the work there because where it is situated is quite important.”

Her exhibition, titled Glimmers, takes its name from a relatively new psychotherapy term the opposite of a trigger, said Yasmine.

“A glimmer is more of an optimistic response, I wanted to try and capture these moments as these feelings that are hard to put to words. It’s like a feeling you wish you could bottle up, a vibration of the soul.”

Yasmine added: “These glimmers for me come from the North West landscape, like walking over the peace bridge, it’s those moments when you have a shiver up your spine or those moments when you really feel in tune with the landscape.”

Describing the experience of seeing her work displayed in Derry’s CCA, Yasmine said it was “surreal.”

Catherine, the director of the CCA, was so incredible. She gave me so much autonomy in making the work, and was so involved and hands-on during the curation.

“It’s quite a solitary endeavour being a painter,” said Yasmine. “But once you take the paintings into a new environment they take on a completely new life. They don’t belong to me anymore they belong to the people in Derry, who will all have their own interpretations of what they are looking at.”

Yasmine said she is proud of what she has achieved and thanked the people in her life who helped her along the way.

She said: “None of it would have happened without the amazing people in my life who have encouraged me. My parents have always been very encouraging of my art, I had an amazing art teacher, Aidan O’Doherty.

“I just feel very proud and very happy to be able to share it.”

Glimmers is available to view in Derry’s Centre for Contemporary Art on Artillery Street until June 6.

To see more of Yasmine’s art, search @YasmineRobinsonArt on Instagram or visit www.yasminerobinsonart.com.

The Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) said they foster a wide range of artistic, curatorial, and critical practices through five programme streams: research and production, exhibition-making, public programmes, publishing, and residencies.

Since its conception in 1992, the gallery has aimed to exhibit emerging artists from Northern Ireland alongside international peers.