Much of Robert's career has been involved with international art projects. He has worked in Japan and South Africa, as well as a project in San Diego with Mexican and American artists. He spent two years immersed in the culture of Japan, and for shorter periods he has worked in South Africa and Europe. These encounters, while enlarging his artistic vision, have only clarified his profound attachment to the American West. His idea of this region is very distant from the earlier more Romantic art movements, more abstractly scientific and more psychologically dislocated; a quantum mechanics representation of our conflicted relationship to the natural world.  

"My work is based on direct observation of the landscape. We tend to take looking at reality as an ordinary, even, banal thing, but I find it is very mysterious. As my vision of a location deepens I see there is no stability at all, only a convergence of paths whose gravities and attractions pull us into a Brownian motion of forms that assists in our own flowerings and disappearances. In a sense, there is no place at all."

 

Widely exhibited since the early 70's, Robert has shown his work in galleries and museums throughout California, Arizona, Japan and Montana, and is represented by the Davis Dominguez Gallery in Tucson .

 

Currently he is working on a series of landscapes of the Headwaters of the Missouri River. The world of the western United States from the Sonoran Desert to the Northern Rockies has inspired his most recent work.  

 

Visit Robert Royhl's website to view more of his works: www.robertroyhl.com