"Evanescence 12" Artwork

Born in Canada's maritime province of New Brunswick, Rob Inglis has been drawing and painting since early childhood. After studying at the Nova Scotia College of Art in Halifax and learning design at Seneca College in Toronto, he embarked on a life combining mastery of technical design and artistic creation. Trained as a draftsman and industrial designer, Rob was intimately familiar with advanced pen and ink techniques. He had also worked with acrylics, pastels, and taught himself airbrushing as well, although he found the airbrush equipment and techniques tedious to work with. In the late 1990's, when he began using software programs such as AutoCAD to do his technical design work, he became intrigued by the possibilities that computer design offered. Over the next few years, he began exploring and mastering some of the new hardware and software options for artists that had come on the market. Finally, he could creatively and efficiently express ideas he had long imagined, but which he had found difficult to execute within the limits of earlier technology. Since his switch to primarily digital media, Rob has produced works designed for hardcopy, for viewing on large HD monitors, and even for public performance - including digital art shows to accompany performances by musical artists. He remains fascinated by the potential of the digital form. Some of his work now incorporates analog media, such as graphite, with digital software like Corel Painter. Rob's art is also influenced by his many years as a practitioner of Zen Buddhist meditation. He has spent many years living and training at Zen Centers in North America. He has created a number of works inspired by and directed toward the world of Zen practitioners, many of which can be found in his website's "Zen Gallery." The Zen influence on Rob's work is not limited to explicitly Buddhist works, however - many of his abstract and geometric paintings are influenced by his meditation experience. Rob notes that: "Some art can take us beyond words and concepts, giving us a glimpse into the realm of Oneness. The paintings in my Geo-Mandala series, for example, are based on the principle that all things arise from and return to One Mind."