Exhibitions
The Look Gallery, Helmsley, North Yorkshire
from April 27th 2008
Robert will be one of four featured artists in an international exhibition, that sees him exhibiting with, among others, Joan Larson, the Canadian-born pastel artist.
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‘Barn Owl’ 30” x 17” (76cm x 43cm) on canvas (private collection) |
Robert's work will all be new and original pieces, concentrating on wildlife and Owls in particular. The exhibition opens on the 27th of April and will run throughout the summer, with new work being introduced throughout the period.
“Look Gallery is a great place to exhibit; you're so close to the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, in an outstanding landscape, and in a gallery that really cares about what it's doing”
The Look Gallery
20 Castlegate
Helmsley
North Yorkshire
YO62 5AB
Tel: 01439 770545
February 2009 - Wallsworth Hall, Twigworth, Gloucester
‘The Colour of Time’
Exhibition of Landscape and Wildlife Paintings and Sculpture. Wallsworth Hall holds the National Collection of wildlife art. Actual dates of exhibition to be confirmed.
Nature In Art
Wallsworth Hall
Twigworth
Gloucester
GL2 9PA
Tel: 01452 731 422
September / October 2009 - Perth, Western Australia
‘Art in the Forest’
Exhibition of Wildlife Paintings Featuring Robert's Work in Australia, Europe and North America. The exhibtion is in association with a conservation and environmental project in Western Australia. Final venues to be decided - updates about this exhibition can be found on this page in the coming months.
Past exhibitions
Llangoed Hall, near Builth Wells : October 2007
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‘Home Before the Storm’ 60” x 36” mixed media on canvas (private collection) |
My first one-man exhibition for fourteen years took place in the heart of the Wye valley just a few miles from the historic border town of Hay-On-Wye, at Llangoed Hall, the home of Sir Bernard Ashley. This beautiful house, renovated and restored to its former glory, houses a wonderful collection of artwork in its own right, which I am proud and delighted to be exhibiting alongside. Landscape and wildlife painting is the core of the exhibition: landscapes, peoples and wilderness from across Britain. A return to my roots in many ways, as much of the work features the landscape of my childhood, together with coastal work and the wild regions of Britain. For a long time I've held a preoccupation with our countryside prior to and during the Great War, between 1900 and 1918. The work of the Gloucestershire poets, much focusing on that time, I find an inspiration. The title for the exhibition is motivated by the poem ‘Cotswold Lad’ by Frank Mansell (1918-1979) :
The farm remains he laboured on
And cherished like a lover,
The land remains but he is gone,
The sunlit days are over.
There were a huge number of young men and women who left the land never to return from the horrific loss of the first world war. And the landscape that had been their home went with them, leaving only shadows and memories, together with the echo of old windmills, watermills and villages, many of which feature among the paintings and drawings.
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‘Country Church’ |
I have tried to re-discover those lost landscapes in hidden corners all over Britain and northern France. From Normandy to Whitby on the north Yorkshire coast to the Scottish Highlands; in haunts such as Cromer in Norfolk, a boyhood memory of summer holidays, across East Anglia and on to Wales and its Celtic past. The exhibition is a celebration of what a friend once called the ‘dignity’ of the British landscape and its people, as well as a celebration of the wildlife that shares our island home.