Rob Hefferan
Rob spent a challenging year putting together a portfolio, then set out
to find work utilizing his design skills in order to finance his dream of
being an artist. His exceptional versatility as a designer and illustrator
won him a number of major contracts, ranging from high profile advertising
campaigns to providing the artwork for children's books, and he soon found
himself in the gratifying position of making a large amount of money from
doing something he really enjoyed. Yet he never allowed his considerable
success to deflect him from his original aim of becoming a full time artist,
and continued to spend much of his spare time painting. |
Born in Manchester in 1968, Rob was a true free spirit from
the very beginning. Desperate to follow an artistic career he found
discouragement round every corner, with the exception of his art teacher who
recognized that his childish drawings of dinosaurs were something rather
special! Ignoring the advice of his elders, he gained a place at university
to study for a degree in illustration, but after a year he began to feel
constrained by the limitations of the course and decided to go it alone.
Rob is always on the look out for new styles and techniques to dissect, and
his work grows and changes as he absorbs a broad range of influences. His
latest figurative pieces are beautifully composed depictions of day to day
meetings and conversations. Each image is a fascinating blend of intricate
foreground detail with broader brush strokes used to create an atmospheric
back drop. They have been greeted with great acclaim on the fine art market,
confirming his position as one of the most exciting rising stars on the
contemporary art scene!
