User:Robhain

Rob Hain
(19 March 1952) was born in Dorset, England and after gaining an honours degree in Fine Art from Loughborough in 1977, he moved to the Scottish Borders where he paints full time. Currently he is working on a series of paintings inspired by the Salford painter L S Lowry.



Early life Rob was the first child of Victor and Dorothy (nee Morgan) Hain and came into the world in a solid brick and flint house at 13, Water Lane, Durweston. The river Stour ran close by and the landscape was very reminiscent of the painter John Constable's Suffolk with flat water meadows a feature of the surrounding countryside. Whether this gave Rob his first inspiration to paint is debatable but it must have had a profound influence in the sense that his love of the countryside was ignited in these early years. Rob's father worked for the National Provincial Bank and in order to get promotion had to move to where he was required. The family moved from the idyllic land of Thomas Hardy to the less rarified air of Newbury. Surrounded by houses and streets Rob's horizon changed as he became interested in the accidental patterns made by the new streets and houses around him. In Southampton there was a further sense of distancing from his roots though his experiences again returned much later in his work. From Southampton the family finally moved to to the village of Stonesfield in West Oxfordshire, where Rob's parents still live.