Robin was born in County Durham but spent his formative years in East Yorkshire, moving to Beverley where he now lives with his wife, Christine, and their rescue dogs. After a spell teaching at Beverley Grammar School and Wolfreton he became involved in teacher training and moved to Hull College of Education. His interest in ecology led him to a doctorate and subsequent post at the University of Humberside specialising in landscape ecology and image analysis.

Robin’s landscape paintings were first exhibited in The Beverley Art Exhibition and the Ferens Art Gallery, where they sold at the opening evenings. Subsequent exhibitions have consolidated his reputation as a serious landscape and townscape artist and prompted the release of limited edition prints, largely of local scenes, which have become increasingly popular. As well as conventional commissions, he has illustrated a series of books by children’s author John Spencer which are now on general release. His work has also been selected for publication in ‘Paint’ the journal of the Society for All Artists.

Recently Robin’s originals have been accepted for national exhibition, including the Royal Society of Artists Prize Exhibition in Birmingham, C21 (Royal Watercolour Society) Exhibition at Bankside Gallery London and the Singer-Friedlander (Sunday Times) at the Mall Galleries in London where his work was short listed for a prize. He has exhibited at the Sculpture Hall, Manchester and the Industrial Gallery, Birmingham Museum Art Gallery. Examples of his work are also to be found in private collections worldwide. This year Robin was the winner of the Society for all Artists' “Professional Artist of the Year, 2008” in the waterscape/seascape category.

In his youth Robin was best known for his tennis, having played county tennis for Yorkshire and twice made the qualifying competition for Wimbledon. He is a qualified free fall parachutist, hang glider pilot and karate brown belt. Adrenalin is now fuelling production of watercolour paintings, which are now his consuming passion.

Robin Storey
6 Thurlow Avenue
Molescroft
Beverley
East Yorkshire
HU17 7QJ
Tel. 01482 869561
robin@storey.karoo.co.uk