Rob has over 35 years industry experience since graduating from Leeds Polytechnic in 1976. 
He possesses a wealth of practical experience, having designed and installed displays for clients such as English Heritage, the RNLI and the National Trust and has created signage for Bettys Tea Shops, Taylors Tea and L’Occitane. Rob is a museum technician and art handler, a signwriter specialising in gilding and gold leaf and is a graphic designer, with a passion for life drawing.

 

Rob has recently completed a beginner’s workshop at Beningbrough Hall near York which is an offshoot of the National Portrait Gallery. The workshop was an introduction to gilding and its practical application on picture frames. 

 

At the work shop the students gilded a small plaster frame with acrylic size and dutch metal, they were then given a short tour of the house itself to look at frames and the gilded decoration. They were then introduced to real loose gold leaf. At the end of the workshop each of the students gets to take a gilded piece home with them.

 

Rob has also recently completed a Demonstration at The open Studios which was to show what he does and to let people watch him demonstrate gilding techniques and to have a go at the techniques  themselves .At both of the events Rob only used acrylic size because of health and safety issues, although he showed and explained both oil sizes and water gilding.

 

Rob Also works part-time as an arts technician at York St John University and now runs regular workshops at York St John University.