Robert Silverton 1942: Robert Silverton began his art training at The Workshop Art Center at Willoughby in 1988 with enrollment in a live drawing class. Since then he has continuously attended classes in oil painting at The Workshop Art Center where over a period of five years he received tuition under Sarah Mufford. Although he began his art career later in life he has been exposed to colour and proportion through a career of forty years, spent in the clothing industry, as a manufacturer of children's clothing. This began in 1960/2 when he completed a Degree in Fashion Design and Management at the Fashion Institute of Technology [ FIT ] in New York. His focus is entirely on oil painting, a medium he enjoys, and which gives a rich expression to his work. Currently, his main focus is on Landscape Painting. "I attempt to create a scene, abstract or otherwise, that evokes a feeling of tranquility. I hope to create paintings that people might feel they would like to hang on their walls. There are no hidden meanings, just an attempt to paint a pleasant picture''. Perhaps the best way to describe my work, is to quote Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt 1862-1918.
"I have the gift of neither the spoken, nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me as an artist, the only notable thing, ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do".
Gustav Klimt [ 1862-1918 ]