My Story
I combine artmaking with a full-time job in IT.
My drawings, sketches, and paintings find inspiration in the grace and beauty of the human form.
I have come to think of pictures as objects as well as illusions.
I want the surface to be rich and variegated and the paint to have a double existance by both portraying something and being nothing more than itself.
I find the process of working step by step feeds my imagination.
I work simultaneously on several paintings, moving to whichever provides me inspiration to avoid forcing any one particular work.
![](https://robertjacobs.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/KEP_9405-1.jpg)
I am
Robert Jacobs
Living beach-side in California, the ocean and lifestyle has inspired me to paint the men and women who chase the waves.
I attempt to portray the sea and surfing through their sheer physicality and seek to negotiate an aesthetic of human form that is both athletic and idealistic.
![20200605_174601](https://robertjacobs.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200605_174601-291x300.jpg)
![20200803_194139](https://robertjacobs.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200803_194139-225x300.jpg)
![20200603_172906](https://robertjacobs.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200603_172906-222x300.jpg)
![20200828_174421](https://robertjacobs.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200828_174421-235x300.jpg)
![20200828_171037](https://robertjacobs.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200828_171037-234x300.jpg)
![20200717_211013](https://robertjacobs.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20200717_211013-300x223.jpg)
![Untitled: Caryatid](https://robertjacobs.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201030_162603-232x300.jpg)
![](https://robertjacobs.art/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201102_172240-scaled.jpg)
Recent Works
My most recent inspiration comes from images of surfers carrying their surfboards overhead on the beach, which resemble the poses of Caryatids.