Robyn Whitney Fairclough received her BFA degree in Painting from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her MFA from Johnson State College, in a joint program with the Vermont Studio Center. She also attended: the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts; The University of Iowa Graduate School of Painting and Drawing; The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. She has studied with Jake Berthot, Bernie Chaet, Charles Cajori, Jim Gahagan, Jim Lechay, Selina Trieff and Wolf Kahn.

Vivien Raynor, in a review for the New York Times, made a special mention of Fairclough’s work exhibited in the Connecticut Artists Show at the Stamford Museum in 1995, and again in 2001, the Valley New (Hanover, NH) published a major article about her work. In 2004 two German publications, Frankfurt Allgemeine and the The Frankfurter Neue Presse, published reviews about Fairclough’s first solo exhibition in Germany. In June 2006 The Frankfurter Neue Presse made special mention of Fairclough’s recent exhibition at the Galerie Barbra von Stechow and special mention was made in the acclaimed Frank furter Allgemeine (June 28, 2006).

Fairclough’s work can be found in private collections throughout California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont as well Austria, France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands.

Public Collections include reproductions of works in four books published by the Kodak company in Rochester, NY; a painting was purchased by Pane Vino Inc., Westport, CT., and in 2009 Martel Bistro in Fairfield, CT.