Robin Hines was born in South Australia in 1945. He studied at Caulfield Technical College in Melbourne and Claremont School of Art in Perth. Robin has been painting for over30 years, and since 1988 he has been a full time artist and teacher of water colour painting. He has been involved in many group and solo exhibitions throughout Australia and the United Kingdom.
Robin and his family lived in Tasmania for some time, and he gained a repututation there as a fine water colourist and he exhibits there regularly. He now lives in Tin Can Bay in Queensland and is much cought after for demonstrating and teaching water colour painting.
Robin has won numerous awards including:
•1996 Redland Art Awards, 1st Prize, Water Colour Section
•1997 Maryborough Sesquincentennial Art Festival, 1st Prize, Water Colour Section
•1997 Royal Queensland Art Society 108th Annual Exhibition, 1st Prize, Open Award, Any Subject, Any Medium
•1998 Maryborough Rotary Club, 2nd Prize, Water Colour Award
•2000 Macgregor Lions Club Garden City Art Show, 1st Prize, Opaque Section
•2001 Royal Queensland Art Society 112th Annual Art Exhibition, 1st Prize, Oils and Acrylics and 1st Prize Traditional Waterclour
•2003 Ipswich Art Awards, 1st Prize, Water Colour Section
•2003 Noosa Outdoor Art Exhibition, Outdoor Art Award
•2004 Noosa Outdoor Art Exhibition, Outdoor Art Award, People’s Choice Award
•2004 Caloundra Art Award, 1st Prize, Local Scene Subject
And here’s what some of the judges had to say about Robin’s work:“A striking and well resolved painting with great association with the district and its history. Good harmony of colour and the variation of size and shape contribute to the sense of disorder and dislocation.”
Judge John Massy, Audience Development Manager, Queensland Art Gallery talks about the painting “Nambour Sugar Mill”, oil on canvas, which won the 2004 Maroochy Shire $5000 Aquisition Prize.
“Fresh, crisp and competent painting, capturing the atmosphere and the location. very good use of medium, showing the diverse application of oil paint, from the smooth pristine sky to the highly textured vegetation. The subtleties of the picture, such as the floating cloud and shadows accross the sandhills have been beautifully painted. A very unified composition, with all elements merging into one magical whole. I like the ambiguity. The viewer is required to ponder over what might be happening on the other side of the dune.”
Judge Stephen Rainbird, 112th Annual Royal Queensland Art Society Exhibition about the painting “The Dunes” which won 1st Prize in the Oils and Acrylics Section.
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