Robert studied his B.A in Fine Art Painting at Ravensbourne College of Art & later attended The Royal College of Art for M.A in Film Making. Robert is a multidisciplinary artist. Robert work is shown and collected in 25+ countries including several installations in Hong Kong and China. In 2019, Robert returned to painting from 3D. Starting with Trash Art series which has been the stimulus for his latest body of work, Nebulous Series.
“I’m not really a history of art person, I’ve always been in the here and now although I do have favourites that come from the past. I am aware that I do owe some debt of gratitude to Abstract Expressionists, Pop Artists and Arte Povera as they resonate somewhere with me. So I have some sense of the past, but more so the near past. As my practice has developed over the years, I guess abstraction has become my spiritual home. I’m aiming towards a very pure painterly painting, where nothing much is referenced from the external world. The work consists of the application of the paint, it’s not about much else. I guess in a way I am dismantling a hierarchy of taste and value, I’m not prioritising any one thing over another. I always had a feeling that somehow painting could be more democratic. Paradox would be a good way to describe my practice, it does two different things, in one direction I’m throwing away and undermining values but in the other direction, I’m doing that so the painting can be more so than some of its parts.
Intrigued by the ‘structure’ of people’s psyche, I have taken time to investigate and explore the nature of my own and other’s personalities and relationships. I have engaged with many opportunities to travel, live and work in different countries to understand something about their people and varied cultures. I am hopeful that discovering all these types of ‘structures’ through my life experiences will find their way through into the work that I make.”
