When art is in your blood

Andrew Lotherington
May 16 2019 - 8:30am
Stunning Scenery: The colours in Robert's artworks are nothing short of breathtaking. Photo: Supplied.
Stunning Scenery: The colours in Robert's artworks are nothing short of breathtaking. Photo: Supplied.

Born in Wagga Wagga and having grown up in Sydney and the Lower Blue Mountains, Robert Keen has been creating art throughout his entire life. Robert said as a young lad he was always drawing. "I was told I could draw before I could walk," he said. "My whole family were artistic and while I wanted to go into commercial art after school, distance proved an issue and instead I got a carpentry apprenticeship and later joined the armed forces". Art would however always prove a strong calling for Robert after discovering the works of the great Sir Norman Lindsay. "I discovered Norman Lindsay when I was fifteen, much to my mother's disgust," he said. "I was intrigued by his ability to draw such fine and detailed work, which to my thinking was what I was after in my own work".

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Andrew Lotherington

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