A event on Wednesday 21st January. The event starts at 18:00.
Robert Collins (1952-2024)
Robert was born in Gloucestershire and educated at Gloucestershire College of Art and the Royal College of Art in Kensington.
He was a versatile painter who worked mostly in oil and expressed himself with equal conviction in landscape, still life and sometimes portrait, interiors and architectural subjects. All these become vehicles for the expression of light, space and atmosphere but despite their realism they all have an essential underlying abstract structure with finely balanced judgements of colour, shape and composition.
From 1984 Rob was represented by The Francis Kyle Gallery, London, where he had numerous one-man-shows and contributed to seventeen group shows.
In 1981 Rob was a founder member of Red Herring Studios in Brighton, a group studio set up and run by 27 artists and craftspeople. In 1989 he moved back to Gloucestershire where he lived and worked. In 2003 he helped set up Under the Edge Arts, a thriving community arts project. He taught four painting groups as well as art history. In August 2009 Rob spent an hour on the ‘Fourth Plinth’ as part of Antony Gormley’s ‘One and Other’ project. He used his hour to paint the view across Trafalgar Square. He was a devoted countryman with a love of nature, and was always interested in the process of seeing and of recording what he sees in paint.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Robert was born in Gloucestershire and educated at Gloucestershire College of Art and the Royal College of Art in Kensington.
He was a versatile painter who worked mostly in oil and expressed himself with equal conviction in landscape, still life and sometimes portrait, interiors and architectural subjects. All these become vehicles for the expression of light, space and atmosphere but despite their realism they all have an essential underlying abstract structure with finely balanced judgements of colour, shape and composition.
From 1984 Rob was represented by The Francis Kyle Gallery, London, where he had numerous one-man-shows and contributed to seventeen group shows.
In 1981 Rob was a founder member of Red Herring Studios in Brighton, a group studio set up and run by 27 artists and craftspeople. In 1989 he moved back to Gloucestershire where he lived and worked. In 2003 he helped set up Under the Edge Arts, a thriving community arts project. He taught four painting groups as well as art history. In August 2009 Rob spent an hour on the ‘Fourth Plinth’ as part of Antony Gormley’s ‘One and Other’ project. He used his hour to paint the view across Trafalgar Square. He was a devoted countryman with a love of nature, and was always interested in the process of seeing and of recording what he sees in paint.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions