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When asked about the matter of giving advice, Bob says, “I never trained in art so I never really did get any formal advice and I don’t remember anyone telling me to do this or that. So, you just do what you want to do.”
He adds, “I feel with art you really ought to try to do something that doesn’t upset people. You want people to feel a bit better even if it is melancholy in its style and so on. A lot of modern art goes to the other extreme. They want to upset you, to “disturb” you and I find that there is too much of that around. Thought-provoking, but perhaps you don’t want to provoke the wrong sort of thought. And so I want people to feel a bit better about things.”
What couldn’t Bob live without? “Personally, my wife is the most important person in the world, plus the children and grandchildren. Funnily enough, I was looking at this question when it was put to me on paper, and my grandson, who is a great expert on cosmology and the universe and everything else said, ‘We all couldn’t live without the ‘Big Bang’ because the whole universe and us wouldn’t exist without it’”.
These days Bob dedicates himself to another beloved creative activity – gardening.
Carol and Bob Belderson
Rachael Weeping by Bob Belderson
El Salvador by Bob Belderson
The Forbidden Fruit by Bob Belderson