About the Artist

Rob Anglin is a retired architect, who has resumed a lifelong joy of painting.   

While a student at Arizona State University, Rob studied watercolor painting under Bob Oliver in the Architecture Department, and oil canvas painting under Professor Jim Pyle in the Fine Arts Department. After receiving his Bachelor of Architecture, with Distinction from Arizona State University, Rob began his architectural career. He also continued studying watercolor painting, significantly under Millard Owen Sheets. Millard was painter, muralist, furniture and  building designer, and was a significant influence on Rob’s artistic development as well as his life. Millard mentored Rob as a young painter and introducing Rob to artist Carolyn Lord, whom he married. www.carolynlord.com

Rob has also attended workshops with: Rex Brandt; George Post; Milford Zornes; Tom Nicholas; Dong Kingman; George Gibson; Christopher Schink; Jane Burnham; Morris Shubin; Robert E. Wood; Gerald Brommer; Jade Fon (Woo); Mario Cooper; Peggi Kroll Roberts; Eric Merrill. Workshops Ned Mueller and Dennis Ziemienski inspired Rob to shift from only working plein-air,  to becoming both a plein-air and a studio artist. In the studio, Rob gathers together his sketches, field studies, photos, and memories to create his gouache paintings.

Rob is an Associate Member of the California Art Club. He has participated in the Mendocino Open Paint Out (MOPO), as well as accompanying Carolyn to the Milford Zornes Watercolor Retreats in Mt. Carmel, Utah and Gualala, California.

Travels with Carolyn to paint include: western United States; Adirondacks in New York; British Columbia; Morelia, Mexico; French Polynesia; Italy; Switzerland; Denmark; and the Caribbean.   In 2019, Rob and Carolyn traveled to France for 5 weeks, to locales including: Senlis, Chantilly, Auvers Sur L' Oise, Villa Savoye, Giverny, Rouen, Etretat, Honfleur, Bayeaux, Mont St. Michel, Renne, Paris, Poitiers, Angle Sur L' Anglin, Loire River Valley Villas, and Tours.

Photo credit: Nan Phelps Photography