About The Artist

Robert Barnes is an award-winning visual artist. While many of his creations look deceptively like photographs, upon closer inspection you see that they are actually digital paintings, realized in millions of pixels instead of pigments.

His images are created with state-of-the-art technology which he uses as his virtual camera, canvas and brush. The resulting images find their roots with the masters of photographic expression and impressionist painting – where the essential root of an idea is cleanly captured and given its own pure voice. It is, in the tradition of Ansel Adams and Jerry Uelsmann, an evolution in visual style.

A graduate of Eckerd College with a BA in Art/Photography, Mr. Barnes became the Chief Photographer / Cinematographer for Turner Broadcasting in 1972. He earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary in 1976.

In 1979 he joined the founding team at Cable News Network (CNN)®. In 1986 he moved to Apple Computer® and spent the next ten years working in advanced technology and digital imagery. QuickTime VR Authoring Studio was the most notable of these projects.

After nearly three decades of detours, Barnes has returned to his first true calling ... to work full time as an artist.

Mr. Barnes has been a guest lecturer on digital art and video production at the University of Georgia, the University of Colorado, Denver, Eckerd College, and the University of Colorado, Boulder.

In 2002, Robert and his wife, Cathy moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he is represented by August Gallery.