Robert Woolner (b.1946)

Robert Woolner (b.1946)
Touching
Signed (lower right and to reverse)
Oil and acrylic
76 x 51cm

Robert Woolner was born in Jamaica in 1946. He trained at Camberwell School of Art where his tutors included Evan Uglow, Frank Auerbach and Robert Medley. Drawing was at the core of his practice and he was influenced by the impact and scale of American Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s. During his career, his work has moved from figuration towards abstraction. He was director of art at Canford and in 1989 moved to Vanners Studio in Dorset, using it as an exhibition space for his own and students’ work. He has held at least one solo show a year in Dorset, London and Paris since 1991. He was a gallery artist with the Alpha House Gallery and received awards from the Department of Environment and Black Swan Arts. He now works at Chantry Studio near Sherborne.