"One of the most prodigious natural talents, I have ever seen!"

Robert K. White was born in Salinas California, on May 22, 1950. While he was growing up in the Monterey Valley, Robert became aware of his artistic talents at a very early age. The stark and beautiful wind swept coast of Monterey gave him a freedom of spirit that shines through his work today and is often the subject of his paintings. Like John Steinbeck, his early years were spent observing familiar people and places, from the Salinas Valley to the Monterey Coast, which made a lasting impression on him.

Robert White has accumulated many unsought accolades for his work around the world. His talent is truly natural, he has never had any formal training or instruction. As an aside on talent: "I suppose it exists. People like Mozart or the mathematician Gauss (who amused himself with geometric progressions as a baby) can be properly described as being "gifted." They have something in abundance that the rest of us have in moderation. But I think, generally, on the scale of normal human achievement, talent consists mostly of being passionately interested in something. I think talent is a matter of focusing one's consciousness, often to the exclusion of other aspects of life. Most people find their way by the diffuse light of a 100 watt bulb; they see everything with reasonable clarity but not too intensely. Talented people, on the other hand, may focus their 100 watts into a pinpoint laser beam; they perceive the object on which their beam falls very well, but often stumble over the ordinary furniture of life."

Robert has refined his techniques through a painstaking study of the masters, uncovering many forgotten techniques used by the great masters of the past. Robert has emerged as an extraordinarily diverse artist with a mastery of many painting techniques. Of much greater significance, however, is his ability to incorporate any of these techniques, in a wide range of subject matter.

The work of Robert White has been collected and commissioned by well-known celebrities, fine art connoisseurs and corporations from around the world. In addition, his work is featured in various public collections, (too numerous to mention.)