Although he was drawing and cartooning at an early age, Rob had no art training in school.  After earning a B.S. in Physics from Rhodes College in Memphis he went into the construction business ultimately settling in Nashville.  In 1994 his wife, Laura, encouraged him to take an art class offered by a museum in Nashville.  When he had a class in oil painting he knew that was what he wanted to do.

There are a great number of excellent representational artists in Nashville. Many of them gifted teachers, and Rob has taken classes and workshops from many of them, selecting a few with whom he has studied year after year. Their common themes are “Learn from the old masters” and “It’s all about the light.”  For Rob it is the painters of the Dutch Golden age that provide inspiration and instruction. He says, “They drive me to paint.”

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