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Wildlife Artists
THE LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
OF
ROB HEFFERAN
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 recognised 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
spent a challenging year putting together a portfolio, then set out to find work
utilising 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 childrens
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.
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!
