Bob Brandt

Born in Stockport in 1935, Bob developed an early interest in painting, becoming one of the first pupils at the Grammar School to study Art to A-level standard. With encouragement from the school Bob submitted work to an open exhibition in Stockport and was accepted.

He later read Law at Bristol University, where he met his wife Helen. While practising as a solicitor in Bristol for over thirty years, he kept up a keen interest in Art, attending evening classes and becoming a member of an enthusiastic art group.

On retiring from practice in 1989, he was able to attend the Queen’s Road School of Art & Design in Bristol to study Life drawing and painting. He held his first one-man show at the Yallop Gallery in the Wye Valley in 1993, and a series of exhibitions in the West of England followed. By this time he had started teaching at his art group.

His first article on painting was accepted by the Artists & Illustrators Magazine in January, 1994 and he has contributed regularly since. His work has appeared in art books published in the United States and Britain.

With their four children married and living away from Bristol, Bob and Helen moved to North Norfolk in 1995. Here Bob paints, teaches and writes about painting. His paintings appear in greetings cards and limited edition prints.

He is represented locally in Norfolk and Suffolk and shows annually in London. His paintings are in private collections not only in Europe but as far afield as America, India and Australia - and have also been bought for the National Trust.

Bob has exhibited with The Royal Society of Marine Painters and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries in London.

Working in a variety of styles and media, and with a wide choice of subjects he personally finds interesting, Bob enjoys pursuing the representational tradition, in order to record and celebrate the days in which we live.