About the Artist
Rob was born in Vancouver. Aged twenty one, a sense of adventure brought him to Oxford to study architecture and led to further adventures in London and Los Angeles.
However, the call of the wild drew him to the Cotswolds to be an artist: to paint, draw and make prints of places and things pleasing and peculiar.
‘Spending time, working on site or in the studio, pondering feelings and thoughts that each scene evokes, inspires me to select the medium that best expresses the sense of a place and to memorialize the experience of being there at a certain time.’
Dar al Ma'mun Library at Fellah III
Riverside Cafe - Ourika Valley (oil on canvas) currently being exhibited in the Dar al Ma'mun Library at the Fellah Hotel, Marrakech.
Dar al Ma'mun Library at Fellah I
Mountain View near Imlil (oil on canvas) currently on show at the Dar al Ma'mun Library at the Fellah Hotel, Marrakech.
Solo and group shows: The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (London); The Foreign Press Association (London); The Royal West of England Academy (Bristol), The Museum of Oxfordshire (Woodstock), The Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Brian Sinfield Gallery (Burford), The White Room Gallery (Leamington Spa), La Chappelle des Capuchins, Turenne (France), The Riva D'Arno Gallery, Florence (Italy) and Dar Al-Ma'mûn Library, Marrekech (Morocco).
Commissions include: The Royal Shakespeare Company for a work presented by H.R.H. Prince Charles; The Watermill Theatre (Newbury) for an edition of signed prints used as a platform for a fundraising campaign; and H.M. Graphics for over 20 works published as signed limited edition prints.
ETC.: Artwork twice selected by the Emily Carr College of Art to tour British Columbia. (1980, 1982); awarded internship with Pritzker prize winning architects, Morphosis (Los Angeles, 1987); B.A. Hons in architectural studies (Oxford, 1989); Shortlisted for the Windsor & Newton Young Artist Award (1996); Postgraduate Certicate in Art Education (2007); Artist-in-residence, Dar Al-Ma'mûn, Fellah Hotel (April 2015)