Bob Shires RCA

About  my work

My landscape paintings are studio creations based on memories, sketches and photographs of places I visit regularly and know well, particularly, but by no means exclusively in Anglesey.  I like to paint the harmony of buildings in rural settings , dramatised with sky and light and shadow.  I think my paintings are characterised by a limited palette and cloudy skies, I love to try and capture the contrast when the sun is highlighting the buildings, but sky is full of an approaching or receding storm.

About me

I was born in Lancashire 74 years ago, but I have lived in Wrexham since I was sixteen, I dropped out of Art College (Wrexham followed by Manchester College of Art and Design as it was called then), after two years to follow a career in Electrical Engineering. I returned to painting a few years ago and retirement has allowed me to devote all my time developing my work.