Robert S. Connett

Robert Steven Connett began drawing and painting as a child and continued making art throughout his adult life. Connett worked as an insurance broker in San Francisco from age 24 to 47. He left the insurance business after he lost his home to a fire in 1995. Connett moved to Los Angeles in 1998 where he was married. He began to create artworks full-time in the year 2004. He now exhibits and sells his artworks in galleries and museums throughout the planet. "I’m often asked why I make my kind of art, and where I get my ideas. The simplest answer to the first part is that I love what I do. I paint because I enjoy seeing my imagination come to life! Throughout my life, I’ve found a state of deep peaceful concentration while creating art. I can’t attain this any other way. Creating art can be like a port in a storm for me. My art, especially in the beginning decades, was purgative in nature. Meaning to say, that I expressed my personal feelings both good and bad with very little objectivity or self-censorship. My work has grown and gained some open-mindedness through self-examination and the maturing of years. However, it is still a sanctuary that I shape from my imagination. It’s still how I illustrate my feelings about the world, but it’s modified by my wish to create order and beauty. I use my work as a vehicle to take me to another world, one of my own creation. I’m honored to share that world and thrilled that others can relate to it in their own way. The second part of the question is much more difficult to answer. Where do I get my ideas? I’m simply trying to illustrate those ideas. I can’t explain where they come from. They are just there, evolving constantly under an infinitely complex number of influences."