Robert Greshoff

Margate

Oil on Canvas

410 x 360mm

In 2022 Robert Greshoff was commissioned to undertake a large painting of Folkestone. This inspired as series of paintings of Kent ports, including depictions of Broadstairs, Dover, Ramsgate and Margate. This small painting of Margate was painted in preparation for the large version that has now been sold.

South African born photographer and artist moved to London in 1986 and then on to Kent in 2002.

Although his professional work is dominated by architecture and urban environments, his personal and painting work is inspired and informed by landscape and the sea, in particular that of Kent and Sussex.

While photography inevitably informs his vision and art practice, he uses painting to develop ideas and visual metaphors that cannot be replicated through photography. The visceral and physical nature of paint play a significant role in his style and remains an important distinction between painting and photography For him, painting is an emotional and connected activity whereas photography is essentially a dispassionate and disconnected one.