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Rob Barnes 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.


Biography

Presently he divides his time between printmaking and his other passion, playing the violin in local orchestras and for choral performances. His artwork follows themes, such as light on water, or shadows in the landscape. His paintings are oil colour on canvas, inspired particularly by the Norfolk and Suffolk coast.

Linocuts are hand-printed on an 1856 Colombian press. This is reputed to have been used for printing The Times newspapers. The manufacture of this press coincides with the arrival of the first railways in East Anglia.

Biography


‘Living half a mile from the river Yare in Norfolk, I look out across the marshes in one direction and across open fields in the other. There are muntjac deer and hares in winter chasing across the fields opposite. As spring approaches, there are times when I could almost sell tickets for the display of hares chasing and competing. There can be as many as ten in the field and they can be surprisingly large. Hares have become a popular subject for artists, and I can see why. They are entertaining and seem to announce the arrival of spring with their wake-up fights and chases. I see them as silhouettes against the light and they never stay still for long.’