Bob Gurney was born in Sydney in 1944 and currently resides in Camden, NSW.

Drawing since early childhood he attended a Life Drawing and Lettering courses at East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School) from the age of sixteen. He commenced occasional sign writing, drawing portraits, city and landscapes, and animals up to 1991 before finally taking up the brush.  He then commenced portraiture and still life painting for several years in oils and acrylics under the tuition of Archibald and Doug Moran finalist Dave Thomas.

Proficient in oils, acrylics, drawing and pen & wash; Bob’s work now consists mainly of land and seascapes, with occasional human and animal portraiture, in which he has developed a realist approach.

Bob was the Arts Coordinator, Publicity Officer, Newsletter Editor and co-founder of the Macarthur Art Group (2006). He is a member of the Friends of Campbelltown Arts Centre; Oatley 101 Society of Artists Inc., Liverpool Art Society, and was a major participant in the painting of Miss Llewella Davies OAM for the Camden Council Peoplescape project in 2001.

He has held a two-man exhibition at the Upstairs Gallery in Gallery Art Studios (Emily Cottage), Campbelltown; an eight-person exhibition at Campbelltown Arts Centre, and exhibits regularly in art exhibitions locally and nationwide.

Bob is a multi-award winning, popular selling artist, whose works are represented in private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas and is in demand for private commissions, demonstrations and workshops to art groups and community organisations.

He tutors locally in his Camden studio, and conducted his ArtCare Courier Service business for 15 years until early 2012. He is an avid “en plein air” painter whenever time permits.

Image credit: Bob Gurney, Last Light, acrylic.

The workshop will consist of a step-by-step demonstration from one or two landscape photos with advice on composition, tone and colour mixing.

If you have any queries please contact Bob on 0412400837 or gurneys1@tpg.com.au

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