A native of San Leandro, California in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bob started as a self-taught painter in the early 1990s to help with insomnia.

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Simply-structured patterns using primary colors dominated his earlier works. Hiking, camping, and travel led Bob to develop more landscape and plein air paintings with regular seasonal painting sessions inside and around Yosemite National Park.

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Bob also studied fine art printmaking at the San Francisco City College, Fort Mason campus under the instruction of Xavier Viramontes, best known for prints supporting United Farm Worker protests in the 1970s (Smithsonian American Art Museum).

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Besides painting on canvas and paper, two of Bob’s paintings became the subject for utility box beautification projects commissioned by the City of San Leandro located in The Village shopping center. A third original on-site painting was commissioned by the City of Pleasanton. Titled "The Most Pleasant Hills," that utility box can be found at the corner of Sunol Boulevard and Mission Drive.

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The Cooler pub located in the heart of downtown San Leandro also commissioned Bob to paint a decorative interior mural. Titled “Beer Palate,” the work represents 204 glasses: 51 each of small, medium, large, and Belgian-style drinking glasses. The color of the glasses represent different styles of beers. The four different colors from lightest to darkest represent blondes and tripels, ambers and wheats, reds and browns, and finally porter and stouts, respectively. The piece took about thirty hours to prep and paint. Fun fact, Bob didn't take any money for the work but did accept beer. An image of this mural can be found in the Patterns & Objects section of this site.

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Today, Bob still likes using bright colors and finding opportunities to display his art on canvas, paper, or as part of community beautification projects. He still takes his travel paints with him on vacations too. “Travel is a great way to find creative inspiration. My paints are never far from reach.”

 

A technology evangelist by trade and holding over 100 patents in the field of haptics, Bob graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in English Literature.

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