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Rob Barnes

 

     
         
     
         
     

Rob Barnes has exhibited regularly in London and many of his paintings, etchings, and linocuts are in private collections, here and abroad. More recently he has returned to painting. His oil paintings and linocuts are inspired mainly by the landscape of East Anglia. Effects of light and colour, weather and atmosphere contribute to the final painting, etching or linocut. Recent work has been inspired by observing the changing light on fields, waterways and ponds through the seasons. His artwork follows themes, such as light on waves, or shadows in the landscape. His paintings are oil on canvas, inspired particularly by an area near Southwold in Suffolk, and North Creake in Norfolk.

Rob studied painting and printmaking at Hull College of Art and London University in the early 1960s. He taught etching, screen-printing, lino and related surface printmaking at Keswick Hall College in Norfolk. He later moved to the University of East Anglia, Norwich where he continued teaching in the School of Education until 2006.