The Artist

After university, Robert built a highly successful 35-year career as an award-winning commercial photographer, collaborating with global brands and music icons. He developed a reputation for his early adoption of emerging digital tools — becoming one of the first photographers worldwide to work with Adobe Photoshop — and for his innovative approach to creative image manipulation.

Later, he embraced a new creative direction, establishing a workshop in Surrey where he continues to push the boundaries of woodworking — combining time-honoured traditional skills with cutting-edge technology to create unique and intricate pieces.

Robert’s work reflects his fascination with the quiet complexity of vision and the beauty revealed through finely crafted detail. Each eye is composed from a carefully arranged mosaic of wooden elements, shaped and assembled to create depth, structure and subtle variation. Rather than depicting sight alone, these pieces explore the experience of looking — and of being looked at.

With their mirror-gloss surfaces, the artworks respond to their surroundings, holding not just light but presence. As you meet their gaze, you become part of the composition itself, drawn into a moment of stillness where viewer and artwork briefly share the same space.