Robin Warnes
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Robin studied at The Ipswich School of Art, Canterbury College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools. As a postgraduate student, he was awarded a number of prizes including The Turner Gold Medal for painting and the David Murray Landscape Scholarship. Robin has been lecturing and working professionally as a painter since 1980; he has been artist in residence, worked on commissions and had work in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally and has works in private and public collections.
Robin has a great deal of teaching experience, from teaching in a prison to running a Youth Arts Centre, teaching on the GAD and Foundation courses at Ipswich School of Art and the Open College of Arts, as well working in Adult and Private Education and module leader in Painting on the BA (Hons) Art and Design course at Suffolk College. Robin is currently Lecturer in Painting on the BA (Hons) Fine Art degree at UCS.
After training as an engineer and working in three dimensional construction, Robin attended Art School in the 1970s. As an artist, Robin's work continues to investigate how to represent the three dimensional world into two dimensions. His main focus is painting and the use of colour, form and texture and the illusion of pictorial space. His paintings fall between the figurative and the abstract; he also continues to investigate drawing and has produced 3D work in the form of constructions and boxes using found objects.