Robert Grimson

Robert Grimson was born in 1945 and grew up in a small fishing village in Devon on the southwest coast of England. He has led a varied and adventurous life working as a deck boy on a tanker, regular soldier, truck driver, auto mechanic, boat builder, cabinetmaker, and harbormaster. Grimson began oil painting at age 12 but had no formal training and did not take art seriously until the late 1980s when much influenced by the British marine artist, the late John Chancellor.

Robert has sailed since a boy and he and his wife, Jean, live aboard their 37-foot-tradition gaff ketch, Meander, which he built in England in 1990 and crossed the Atlantic in 1993. “Most of my work is produced in Meander‘s small cabin which is not easy, but does have the advantage of being able to look toward the sea for inspiration.”

Robert’s work is currently available in the UK at Lander Gallery in Truro, Cornwall and Gallery Marin in Appledore, N. Devon and in the J. Russell Jinishian Marine Art Gallery in Fairfield, Connecticut and the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport.