Francis Kyle Gallery

Robert Collins


		Olive grove , Madonie hills, Sicily, oil 2004
		19.75 x 23.5in 50 x 60cm


		Autumn vines with young olive tree, oil 2005
		19.75 x 23.5in 50 x 60cm

		Price range: £2500.00 - £11000.00

Robert Collins

Robert Collins was born in Gloucester in 1955 and educated at Gloucester College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. Between 1978 and 1982 he was active as an art therapist in Brighton. He has been represented by Francis Kyle Gallery since 1984 and been a contributor to some twelve of the Gallery's theme exhibitions, including The Ridgeway (1986), Goethe's Italian Journey (1987), and Blue and White: Still Life on a Classic Theme by Contemporary Painters (1989). In 1990 he showed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and has held one-man exhibitions with Francis Kyle Gallery in 1991, 1995, 1998 and 2002.

Collins is a painter of remarkable versatility, working mostly in oils, and expressing himself with equal conviction in landscape (painting in all weathers and always en plein air), still life, interiors and architectural subjects. In 1988 works by Robert Collins were featured in The Ridgeway, Europe's Oldest Road: Paintings from the Francis Kyle Gallery with an essay by Richard Ingrams (Phaidon Press).