ROBERT KELSEY WAS BORN with a creative spark and an inkling to keep exploring his artistic abilities from a young age. This led him to secure a spot at Glasgow Art School at the age of 17. Call it a sign from the universe, as Robert slowly began to align with his true calling. “I started to paint in oils on hardboard and was happy to take on landscape commissions from friends and neighbours. This was the start of my lifelong career as a professional artist. Though, I wasn’t aware of it at the time. Interestingly, one or two of these paintings from the late 1960s sometimes pop up in Scottish auction sales,” he smiles.
The artist’s love for seascapeshis artistic exploration. Robert reminisces, “My home had a few good art books, particularly a three-volume set entitled, . One illustration, by Thomas J Somerscales, 1899, struck a chord with me and may have been the start of my love of seascapes.”
