Robert Woolner (b.1946)

Robert Woolner (b.1946)

Blue Touch

Signed and dated 2018

Mixed media

96cm x 72.5cm (including frame)

Framed and mounted

Robert Woolner was born in Jamaica in 1946. He trained at Camberwell School of Art where his tutors included Euan Uglow, Franc Auerbach and Robert Medley. Drawing was at the centre of his practice. In the 1960's Woolner was influenced by the impact and scale of American Abstract Expressionism. During his career, his work has moved from figuration towards abstraction.

Robert was Director of Art at Canford School from 1986 to 1990 and moved to Vanners Studio in North Dorset in 1989. The studio provided an exhibition space for his own and his students' work. He ran courses in painting and mixed media until 2006. Since 1991 he has had at least one solo show a year in Dorset, London and Paris and was a regular gallery artist with the Alpha House Gallery. Woolner's work has featured in Reinventing the Landscape (Canterton Books), Wessex Artists (Evolver Pubs) and a monograph produced by Fishbar Publications (Works 2000 to 12016). He has received awards from the Dept. of Environment and Black Swan Arts.