Visual Language Magazine Contemporary Fine Art Vol 2 No 9 September 2013
Visual Language Magazine Vol 2 No 9 September 2013 Visual Language Magazine is a contemporary fine art magazine with pages filled with dynamic fine art, brilliant color and stimulating composition. This month features Charles Spinetta Winery and Wildlife Gallery in California, Spotlight Interview with American wildlife artist Benjamin Cheshire, studio visits with UK Artist Robbie Graham, Wildlife Artists Heather Lara, Diane Whitehead and Terry Lee, American Still Life artist Pamela Blaies and Artspan Photographer Pauline Fowler. On the Cover is the artwork of Artspan Artist Heather Lara. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language crosses all cultures around the world.
Visual Language Magazine Vol 2 No 9 September 2013 Visual Language Magazine is a contemporary fine art magazine with pages filled with dynamic fine art, brilliant color and stimulating composition. This month features Charles Spinetta Winery and Wildlife Gallery in California, Spotlight Interview with American wildlife artist Benjamin Cheshire, studio visits with UK Artist Robbie Graham, Wildlife Artists Heather Lara, Diane Whitehead and Terry Lee, American Still Life artist Pamela Blaies and Artspan Photographer Pauline Fowler. On the Cover is the artwork of Artspan Artist Heather Lara. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language crosses all cultures around the world.
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Studio Visit Wildlife <strong>Art</strong>ist<br />
Robbie Graham<br />
Robbie Graham is a UK based artist born in West Germany and currently<br />
living in Tenterden, Kent,UK. Robbie served in the R.A.F before joining<br />
Kent Police, where he served for twenty two years. Robbie left the police<br />
this year to follow his passion to create his photographic like paintings<br />
and at the same time, support a number of conservation programs.<br />
Robbie had an extremely interesting career as a police officer, having<br />
served his last eight years as a detective chief inspector. He was the<br />
borough commander at Maidstone, the county town of Kent. Robbie said,<br />
‘It was a great place to work and as the commander of the station I had<br />
the privilege of hanging lots of my wildlife paintings all over the building.<br />
It made the station bright and very different from the norm!” Robbie also<br />
spent five years as the Head of Kent Special Branch where he was responsible<br />
for all counter terrorism operations across the county of Kent.<br />
Robbie said ‘I found this time in career the most challenging.’ In 2009<br />
Robbie was selected to undertake a secondment in South Australia for<br />
three months. There he was sworn in as an uniformed Australian police<br />
chief inspector and headed up operations in Port Adelaide.<br />
Robbie said ‘I really enjoyed my time in Australia, having never been<br />
there before. It also gave me a wonderful operation to explore the wonderful<br />
wildlife there in my down time’.<br />
Whist in the police, Robbie held a number of fund raising solo exhibitions<br />
where he raised much needed funds for Children Victims Of Crime and<br />
big cat conservation programs.<br />
Robbie began painting approximately 10 years ago and since then his<br />
work has become so popular that he decided to ‘make the leap’ from<br />
police officer to professional wildlife artist. His work can now be seen in<br />
collections world wild. He is a signature member of <strong>Art</strong>s For Conservation<br />
and also a featured artist for Daler Rowney, one of the world’s largest art<br />
material suppliers . His art work ‘ Always Alert’ is used by Daler Rowney<br />
for their header boards displaying their designer gouache range.<br />
Robbiegrahamart.co.uk<br />
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