Painter and teacher, born in Mumbles, Swansea. He did a foundation course at local College of Art, 1975–6, then a fine art honours degree at Manchester Polytechnic, 1976–9, in 1979–81 gaining diploma in fine art at Slade School. During the following year Robinson was painting fellow on a fine art degree course at Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology, Cheltenham, followed by part-time lecturing at Waltham Forest College and Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design. Robinson’s pictures had a bright, cheerful, jokey quality, the images reduced to flat, cardboard cut-out forms. He exhibited extensively, starting with MAFA in 1978. Other selected exhibitions were Nine Slade Painters, Seven Dials Gallery, 1980; Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1983–4; William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, and Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 1985; and The Minories, Colchester, 1986, one of 4 London Artists.