This is Jersey - Art - Robert Tilling

Robert Tilling R.I. \| Curriculum Vitae Robert Tilling lived in Jersey from 1968 until his death in 2011. His artisitic career spanned numerous solo and group exhibitions including showing at Barbican Centre London, the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and the Contemporary Arts Society. He gained a number of awards including the Cleveland Drawing Biennale and two at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours for ‘the most outstanding work’. He also illustrated a number of books and publications for, among others, Charles Causley and Spike Milligan and his paintings have been included in over thirty books and magazines. Bob was awarded an MBE in 2006 for services to the arts.
Three Bottles Charcoal	Distant Headland	St Ouen's Bay Watercolour/B>
Still Life Charcoal	Evening Plemont Watercolour	Last Light
Distant Tower Watercolour	Ouaisne Bay	Evening Light

Working primarily in watercolour, acrylic, gouache and charcoal, the majority of his work is based on local landscape and seascape. He is presently the Chairman of the Management Committee at the Jersey Arts Centre. He has lectured widely, including the Tate Gallery and at Exeter University, his writing on jazz and blues have been published on both sides of the Atlantic.

‘A great deal of my work is based on the landscape and still life which is composed by a process of imaginative reconstruction in which both observation and memory play important parts.’ - Robert Tilling
‘This technique is not for the faint-hearted: it needs to be done with a degree of panache that comes from experience gained with experimentation.’ - Patricia Seligman