BOB GURNEY
PROFILE
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Bob Gurney was born in Sydney in 1944
and resides at Camden, NSW. After attending a life drawing and lettering course
at East Sydney Technical College at the age of sixteen, he continued
to sketch up until 1991 before taking up the brush. He then commenced
portraiture and still life painting for several years in oil and acrylics
under the tuition of Archibald and Doug Moran finalist Dave Thomas. Bob’s work now consists mainly of land and seascapes,
with occasional human and animal portraiture, in which he has developed
a realist approach. He has been tutored and guided by other well-known
Australian artists, including John Wilson, Kasey Sealy, Warwick Fuller,
Graham Cox, Robert Wilson, Ian Chapman, Ross Paterson & Herman Pekel. |
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| Bob is an active member of the Friends of Campbelltown City Bicentennial
Art Gallery, Oatley 101 Society of Artists Inc., and Liverpool Art Society. He has participated in a two-man show
at the Upstairs Gallery Art Studios, Campbelltown; an eight-person show
at Campbelltown Art Gallery, and exhibits regularly in art exhibitions
nationwide. Bob is a popular selling artist whose works are
represented in private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas. (which he commenced in 1997), and is an avid “
en plein air “ painter when time permits. |