Rob grew up along the shores of Lake Ontario, travelled north to Haliburton to study Painting & Illustration, and then to study Graphic Design in Peterborough, where he lives today.

In his work he explores the conflict of tradition with evolution, how the new digital world mixes and blends with the generations of analog tradition. His style is often characterized by bright, colourful designs, mixing the vibrant hues of the digital world with wide, expansive scenes of the natural world.

He is inspired and influenced by a wide variety of people, places and things, by other art and by accidents and synchronicities in everyday life. His practice is informed by many other artists, like the Group of Seven, Maxfield Parrish and Kandinsky, by glitch artists and by filmmakers, by other painters & illustrators, by animators and video game designers, by NASA technicians, to name just a few.

Rob is fascinated by all the different tricks that the mind plays on itself, and some of the ways the solid can be distorted: things like blurred vision, faint memories, altered perceptions, illusions and dreams.

When not making art, he spends his time gardening, woodworking, and playing guitar, video games, or running D&D games as a Dungeon Master.