Robert James Renwick
Fine Art
925A Paseo del Pueblo Sur #22
Taos, NM 87571
ph: 575 586 1040
painter
Biography
Robert James Renwick was born in Central London in 1966. His childhood was spent in English prep schools with holidays in the Scottish highlands and on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. These frequent and early trips were to have a significant effect on his future.
From the start it was apparent that Bob would be an artist. He was only really happy when drawing and painting. He sold his first portrait aged thirteen to a man he had been idly sketching in a restaurant.
Academia and Bob did not get along. Diagnosed Dyslexic when eight, a condition not recognized by any of his schools at the time, he was rebellious and was removed from one school after another. He received tutelage from a college specializing in Dyslexia, the only one in London.
At fourteen he attended Mander, Portman and Woodward where he studied for and passed the advanced Art examinations alongside students three and four years his senior. He later attended The Camden Arts Center and The London College of Printing, William Blake’s old School.
He began traveling extensively at age sixteen. He journeyed to France, Spain, Portugal and Morocco. This was followed by a year in South America, A year in Australia and two months in the United States. All the while he sketched and photographed. He also read, among others, the work of Meister Eckhart, Jung and Patanjali.
Between trips he was trained in the ancient craft of Water Gilding and had jobs restoring antique furniture. He also created high end special paint effects for some wealthy Londoners.
He restored a number of classic British motorcycles and through his contacts in the business struck up a friendship with another restorer in Phoenix, Arizona.
In 1994, after only two telephone conversations, he was on his way to Phoenix to see a 1970 Triumph TR6c. Two weeks in Phoenix turned into three months and five thousand miles around the southwest camping off the back of the motorcycle.
Tiring of the adventure and on the brink of returning once more to England he stumbled upon Taos county in New Mexico. Feeling immediately at home he rested up and soon met Sharron Tavernier, out west from Boston after spending two years teaching english in China and waiting for a Peace Corp assignment.
Taos county was the only place that he ever wanted to stop so Bob bought a small piece of land in the woods at eight thousand feet and built a self sustaining, solar home with his own hands.
He soon became a regular fixture on the Taos art scene and continues to show work at Wilder Nightingale Fine Art on Kit Carson Road.
In 2006 he and Sharron bought a 30 foot sail boat, rented out their house, and went cruising in the Bahamas and Florida where they eventually discovered St Augustine.
From the start it was apparent that Bob would be an artist. He was only really happy when drawing and painting. He sold his first portrait aged thirteen to a man he had been idly sketching in a restaurant.
Academia and Bob did not get along. Diagnosed Dyslexic when eight, a condition not recognized by any of his schools at the time, he was rebellious and was removed from one school after another. He received tutelage from a college specializing in Dyslexia, the only one in London.
At fourteen he attended Mander, Portman and Woodward where he studied for and passed the advanced Art examinations alongside students three and four years his senior. He later attended The Camden Arts Center and The London College of Printing, William Blake’s old School.
He began traveling extensively at age sixteen. He journeyed to France, Spain, Portugal and Morocco. This was followed by a year in South America, A year in Australia and two months in the United States. All the while he sketched and photographed. He also read, among others, the work of Meister Eckhart, Jung and Patanjali.
Between trips he was trained in the ancient craft of Water Gilding and had jobs restoring antique furniture. He also created high end special paint effects for some wealthy Londoners.
He restored a number of classic British motorcycles and through his contacts in the business struck up a friendship with another restorer in Phoenix, Arizona.
In 1994, after only two telephone conversations, he was on his way to Phoenix to see a 1970 Triumph TR6c. Two weeks in Phoenix turned into three months and five thousand miles around the southwest camping off the back of the motorcycle.
Tiring of the adventure and on the brink of returning once more to England he stumbled upon Taos county in New Mexico. Feeling immediately at home he rested up and soon met Sharron Tavernier, out west from Boston after spending two years teaching english in China and waiting for a Peace Corp assignment.
Taos county was the only place that he ever wanted to stop so Bob bought a small piece of land in the woods at eight thousand feet and built a self sustaining, solar home with his own hands.
He soon became a regular fixture on the Taos art scene and continues to show work at Wilder Nightingale Fine Art on Kit Carson Road.
In 2006 he and Sharron bought a 30 foot sail boat, rented out their house, and went cruising in the Bahamas and Florida where they eventually discovered St Augustine.
925A Paseo del Pueblo Sur #22
Taos, NM 87571
ph: 575 586 1040
painter
