Robin Frisella

Geof Staniford

Geof writes: I attended art school at Wallasey College of Art and the Laird School of Art in Birkenhead. Then after jobs in security on Liverpool docks, environmental health for Liverpool City, and surveying in the building trade, I went on to become a computer scientist. I lectured at three English Universities, with research work taking me all over the world. I painted as a hobby during this time, some 60 years in all. I have attended short courses with leading artists such as Richard McKinley IAPS-MC PSA-MP, Marla Bagetta IAPS-MC PSA and Robert Brindley RSMA, to name a few. 

I have been accredited as a Professional Associate Art Tutor by the SAA. Although I have a PhD and taught in English Universities for nearly thirty years, this teaching art recognition by the worlds largest art society pleases me a great deal. For eight years I was employed as the painting tutor at the Spider Project in Birkenhead. 

[I am] now retired and living on the Wirral Peninsula. My studio looks out directly over gardens with trees and flowers in abundance. I paint mainly mountain landscapes and coastal scenery in soft pastel, and exhibit with several art societies and in open exhibitions in the UK and internationally.

In the UK, I belong to several local art societies and am a member of the North Wales Society Of Fine Artists. Internationally, I am an associate member of the Pastel Society of America and a member of several regional pastel societies, and exhibit regularly in the United States. 

Above, clockwise from upper left:

Mountain Scene Snowdonia

Path to Rydal Water

Moorland Sunrise

Sun’s Rays North Wales