Robertson was born and raised in the north east of Scotland, where as a child, he drew compulsively to make sense of the world. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art, before working for many years as a designer, writer, art director and creative director. He lives in London.

Working in ink, graphite, charcoal and watercolour, Robertson’s palette is largely, though not entirely, monochrome.

His subject matter springs from nature, poetry, myth, folklore and dreams. His medium is the natural world and the human form, drawing on these to explore themes of transformation, transience and ambiguity.

His images are fleeting and fugitive, each a moment made visible - a pivot, a change from one reality to another, whether it’s a murmuration busy in its endless shape-shifting, a human transforming into something other, or simply a form leaking from light into darkness.

Robertson’s world flickers between recognition and unknowing. It is mutable and liminal, there and not there.

He still draws to make sense of it all.