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Robin Barker Purnell, who died July 19, was born near Boston. Mass., in 1951. She graduated from the Massachusetts College of Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in painting.
The general trend in many art institutions in America at the time was away from classical training and towards abstraction and personal expression. As a student. Robin's work was abstract and she was committed to the idea of “stream of consciousness*' in her painting
Following a four-month period of study in Greece with Aristotle Solounias. a Greek painter, graduate of Cornell University, and art historian of Wolf Kahn she became convinced that a foundation in classical art training was an absolute necessity.
After many years of personal study, visits to museums to study the works of the Old Masters and exploration of techniques past and present, the artist found the challenges of realism so intriguing and demanding that abstraction lost all interest for her.
She lived and worked in Liberia, Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg), Austria, and Kazakhstan as well as her
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