Robert Sinclair is a practicing Canadian professional artist who has exhibited regularly in Canada since 1972.
He is represented in many corporate and public collections across Canada, America, Europe and Japan. Since 1965 his work has been featured in 54 solo exhibitions and 33 group shows at public galleries, universities and commercial galleries in Canada, the United States and Abroad.
“ I am engaged in the painting of a perception. The perception of the extra-ordinary in the ordinary. Of the backyard flower and of the faraway mountain.... of the sun and of the moon... of that which calls my heart. This is the dance I play, and my art is the visible remnant.”
1939 Born: Saltcoats Saskatchewan
Studies: 1961 - University of Manitoba B.F.A 1965 - University of Iowa, M.A. 1967 - University of Iowa, M.F.A. 1987 - Leighton Artists Colony, Banff, Alberta 1989 - Shozo Sato Sumi-e workshop - Leighton Foundation, Calgary Alberta 1990 - Shozo Sato Sumi-e Workshop, Fort Bragg California
Teaching Positions: 1965 - 1997 Dept. Of Art and Design, University of Alberta 1973 - summer : Visiting artist in Residence, University of Iowa 1976 ( summer): Special Visiting Artist, Banff School of Fine Arts 1985-89/92/94/96/97: Summer Series Instructor, Red Deer College and Alberta Culture 1989 - present: Robert Sinclair Art Studio ( Watercolour workshops), Black Cat Ranch
Member: Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour
