I have completed a wide range of interesting commissions in the past ranging from trompe l’oeils to murals and portraits to design work for both museums and graphics firms. Privileged access to the Natural History Museum’s collection from 2004 to 2006 allowed me to paint, draw and use the valuable resources for inspiration. Regular studio visits to the late Robert Lenkiewicz’s studio and the opportunity to interview him in Plymouth gave me incite to what it was like to be a prolific professional artist.
Other opportunities have included being selected as one of twelve students to work with The Professor of sculpture at The Royal Academy; David Mach to produce a 12 square metre collage to be exhibited in the Millennium Dome and studying watercolour painting under David McEwen in Southern France
More recently I completed an internship at The Watts Gallery; a unique museum dedicated to the painter and sculptor G.F. Watts who was a founder of The Tate Gallery in London. It has given me insight into the world of curating, exhibitions and private views and helped me develop as an artist. The curatorial world has now become merged with the career of an artist. The blur between these once very separate career paths has allowed artists to present their own work in a way they would like it to be seen. There is much that an artist must be familiar with including presentation, curating and the work of an agent.
All these opportunities are helping me in achieving my life time’s ambition of becoming a traditional figurative painter, curator and writer.
Robert Cordingley
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