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| Robert Greenhalf is an artist whose great love is for wildlife in the landscape. He works in watercolour and print, placing great emphasis upon observing and sketching in the field. His watercolours, and even sometimes his printing plates, are made directly from life. This gives them a refreshing immediacy free from the stiffness of many "studio" wildlife paintings. His printmaking media include etching, drypoint, and woodcut, usually employing only one plate and often hand painted in watercolour. He was born in Sussex in 1950 and studied at Eastbourne and Maidstone Colleges of Art, graduating in 1971 with a Diploma in Art and Design. In 1979 Robert was elected a member of the Printmakers Council and 1981 saw his election as an Associate of the Royal Society of British Artists and as a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists. In 1982 he was elected a full member of the Royal Society of British Artists and two of his illustrations were published in 'Flights of the Imagination', an anthology of bird poetry. In 1979 his work was featured in 'Birds' the magazine of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. 'Twentieth Century Wildlife Artists' by Nicholas Hammond, published in 1986, contains a chapter on Robert's work and 'Drawing Birds' by John Busby contains a number of examples of his sketches and watercolours. His work is featured in "Drawn to the Forest", published by the Wildlife Art Gallery in 2000, and in "Portrait of a Living Marsh", published in 1993 by Inmerc BV Wormer in cooperation with the WWF and Artists for Nature Foundation. In 1999 the monograph 'Towards the Sea' on the work of Robert Greenhalf was published by Pica Press. His work has been shown in many mixed exhibitions and one man shows in London, throughout England and Wales and in Switzerland, Holland and the USA and he has had work hung in the Royal Academy's Summer Show on several occasions.
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| all work copyright Printmaking: robert greenhalf 2004. |
