Bob Bernard

Biography

Bob Bernard is a Northern English painter who grew up in Manchester and moved to study fine art at Sheffield’s Psalter Lane site in 1984 and has remained a resident in South Yorkshire to this day.

Recent work is focused on both figurative and landscape subjects, the latter worked from the striking and rugged scenery found in the Peak District. Bob’s work is very much focused on paint, and how he uses his oils, with expressive mark making and textures to capture the dramatic physical structures of the Peaks enhanced by the light and colour that the seasons bring, with the ever-changing weather that shifts through these landscapes.

He has exhibited at several shows including the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts Open Exhibition, Sheffield Mappin Art Gallery Open Exhibition, in Austin Texas and regularly sells work through private galleries in Manchester, Sheffield, Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

Bob is married with two grown up children. He has also built a successful career as a freelance graphic artist and a political satirist cartoonist working under the guise of ‘Get Satire Done’.

On a personal note, Bob was diagnosed with Parkinson’s four years ago,

‘like most people who are diagnosed I had probably had it for some time. It was affecting my work as a freelance graphic artist, I was struggling with stiffness and loss of fine motor control, primarily with my left hand (fortunately I am right-handed), back ache, brain fog, and tiredness. The medication has improved things dramatically. Although it’s degenerative, I am trying to turn this into a positive, and use it as an opportunity to focus on my first great love, painting.’