INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed portrait artist Rob Wareing and his wife have returned with the swallows to spend summer at their home in Shelly Beach.
Like the migratory birds, they avoid winter by dividing their time between the South Coast and the United Kingdom. Rob is a member of the collective of artists who base themselves at the new Artists’ Gallery in Ramsgate. He received a warm welcome from the collective.
One of the South Coast’s best known artists, Rob studied art and painting in Europe and the USA under master artists Daniel Green, John Howard Sanden and Bob Gerbracht. In 1982 he became a member of the portrait institute of New York, where his pastel works received special mention.
He returned to KwaZulu-Natal in 1983 where he ran his own gallery and had regular successful exhibitions. The numerous portrait commissions he has received include ones from top-ranking South African politicians. From 1998 to 2003 he exhibited regularly in Santa Maria, USA, receiving many high profile commissions and holding art workshops for artists.
He has since conducted countless artist workshops in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Botswana, Mauritius and the United States and he has put together a range of art instruction dvds. Rob also writes for various international art publications and his figurative paintings are increasingly in demand.
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