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Artist's Biography
Artist's Biography
Artist's Biography
Robert Senior is an artist working predominantly in oils. His artwork is drawn from his imagination rather than observation, beginning with a memory or an idea that can flow from random mark making, but which feels particularly alive and significant to him.
There are strong autobiographical, psychological and spiritual elements to his wor
Robert Senior is an artist working predominantly in oils. His artwork is drawn from his imagination rather than observation, beginning with a memory or an idea that can flow from random mark making, but which feels particularly alive and significant to him.
There are strong autobiographical, psychological and spiritual elements to his work.
He was a Jacksons Painting Prize winner (Category Award) 2022 and shortlisted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Award (2018). In 2019, Robert had a solo exhibition at the Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere and in 2021, a solo exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking. Amongst the group exhibitions in which he has taken part, he has previously been selected for the ING Discerning Eye and ROI exhibitions at the Mall Galleries.
He has also completed several Church commissions including a set of murals covering 56 square metres.
. Robert has been strongly influenced by the Romanesque sculptor Gislebertus and Stanley Spencer, both of whom depicted their themes playfully and yet movingly, with an affection for humanity.
Robert was born in Surrey where he currently lives and works.
He studied at W.S.C.A.D and Exeter University.
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Artist's Statement
Artist's Biography
Artist's Biography
Initially I play with gouache or pencil on paper . If what emerges feels powerful or significant in some way, I will explore it further in oil paint. For me, the ability of oil paint to be reworked, helps ideas to be revealed and refined.
I am an intuitive rather than intellectual painter, drawing naturally on memory and imagination rat
Initially I play with gouache or pencil on paper . If what emerges feels powerful or significant in some way, I will explore it further in oil paint. For me, the ability of oil paint to be reworked, helps ideas to be revealed and refined.
I am an intuitive rather than intellectual painter, drawing naturally on memory and imagination rather than from observational sources, so that unexpected imagery and meaning can emerge freely.
Some paintings are simply imagined, while others are recollections of actual events, others still a mixture of both.
A vivid and significant early childhood memory was of feeling the wind forcing its way up between the black stained sitting-room floorboards and seeing it lift and ripple the carpet square in front of the fireplace. A dawning awareness of a possible world beneath the floor – an invisible reality beyond the boundaries of our perceived and accepted world yet running through the surface of the everyday - touches the way I experience life today.
This alongside the experience of living and working with people living on the margins of society, and working within the mental health sector has profoundly affected my sense of the world and the values that inform my work.