Biography I’m a 3rd generation Oregonian, who studied art at the University of Oregon and then at the San Francisco Art Institute. By then I had dedicated myself to landscape painting in oils. After being out in the world for 10 years, I found a way to make a living and be close to painting by making oil colors and founded Gamblin artists Colors in 1980, and then Gamblin Conservation Colors in 2000. While at the same time, I kept a studio and painted the landscape and have exhibited my work in galleries since 1997. My primary mentors were David Foster at the University of Oregon and Wolf Kahn in New York and Vermont. 2017 Published The Paintings of a Paint Maker: The Landscapes of Robert Gamblin, monograph 142 pp.2016 was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award from National Art Materials Trade Association.2014 Received the Ellis F. Lawrence Medal, from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts, (College of Design) University of Oregon Statement My studio is in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the Oregon coast on Cascade Head. My subject matter is the landscape around me: the headland with its Sitka spruce and Red Alder forest, the Salmon River estuary, and the ocean. My intention as an artist is to reach for the transcendent. In the biosphere reserve, the transcendent is the normal, not so rare. One must only come with senses wide open to experience it, to recognize nature as profound and powerful in and of itself. To me, these paintings are a partnership between the local environment and myself. I work to bring out the story. I sense the landscape. My use of color is key to the communication. Every color has its vibration in light, and every color resonates in us emotionally when we are open to it. I use color intuitively; the color carries the message. And just as with music, the message is nonverbal. Lastly, and this is important to my painting process, I must mention my decades-long experience of making color. From paint making, I learned much more about color and oil paint than I could ever learn from painting alone. This technical knowledge about color has become a foundation of my work and is what my emotional relationship to color is tethered to. RobertGamblinStudio.comInstagram: @RGamblin