Robert Hamilton-Pennell is an artist and teacher who grew up in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and studied art, architecture and education at Washington State University and the University of Oregon. He has been teaching and painting for over forty years and lives with his wife Christine in Denver, Colorado.
“Ever since my childhood on trails in the Cascades or in the sagebrush desert of eastern Oregon, I have been drawn to the patterns I see along the way…in the cliffs rising above the trail, in the dark cathedral of firs, or in the desert vastness that vanishes to the evening horizon.
My goal as an artist is to create paintings that feel like my experiences in nature. It is more like writing a poem about what I love than simply using paint to depict a scene.”
