Special Olympics Poster Painting by Robert Robbins

Original

Seller Robert Robbins

Certificate of Authenticity included

Original Artwork Painting, Oil

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This original is about special olympics, winning over the world. In 1992, I coordinated with Mickey Boutilier for their twenty-fifth year at the Maine Special olympics. The original is made up of ten different events, from basketball to downhill skiing. It was made to show that together we win. One of the reasons I chose to do this is that I had a [...]

Robert Robbins

United States

I am R B Robbins. I was born on July 20 1965 in Portland, ME USA . I grew up in the western part of Sebago Lakes Region of Maine called Bridgton, a small town of 3700 people. I was one in a family of six. I have three siblings, two brothers and a sister. I was raised from middle class family. My Dad was a Lineman for Central Maine Power and my mother was a home maker.

I was a very busy kid my childhood years with friends playing sports. I went on to High school and played variety of sports football, and basketball. I graduated from Lake Region High School in June of 1984. In 1984 I started my journey to get my engineering degree. I was in and out of college. In 2001 went back to Wentworth institute of technology to get my associates degree in Mechanical Engineering graduated in 2002. then I went on to pursue my bachelors degree Mechanical Engineering Design. I received a Bachelor of Science in August of 2006.In October 1988, I started my ventures with design artistically.

I have been doing this for 36 years. I have done numerous showings, exhibitions and done a few projects for commission. I have done many shows such as New England Craft fair shows, Allentown art festival in Buffalo NY, Wickford art festival in Wickford Rhode Island, Mystic art festival in Mystic Connecticut, and all the way up to Portland Maine for Sidewalk art festival. In December 1992, I did an original with Mickey Boutilier to help promote Maine Special Olympics to make posters to celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary. In December 1992 I worked with Steve Luttrell to put two my originals in a poetry book called Cafe Review. In October 2000, I did an Original with Bruce Marshall for the Bruce Marshall Group for their next album called paper trail. In October 2000, I did an original with Eric John Norman, he had a bunch of songs he was going to play at open mics he gave me the go ahead of using his songs and produced an original called Livewire. In 2022 I entered a few shows and was a finalist three times at an event called Art Comes Alive at Art Designs Consultants Under Litsa Spanos of Cincinnati, Ohio. Today, I am settled in a town in western part of Maine called Sebago. I work and do work around the house, projects. On my free time I draw and color. I want to thank you for reading the bio.