Robin Mason is a British painter born in Porthcawl

Porthcawl

Porthcawl is a town on the south coast of Wales in the county borough of Bridgend, 25 miles west of the capital city, Cardiff and 19 miles southeast of Swansea...

, South Wales. He is head of BA and MA painting at City and Guilds of London Art School

City and Guilds of London Art School

The City and Guilds of London Art School is an art college in London, England, United Kingdom. It is one of the country's longest established art colleges, and offers courses ranging from Foundation, through B.A. degree, Postgraduate Diploma and M.A...

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Between 1977 and 1984 he studied painting at Cardiff College of Art, Wolverhampton Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art

Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...

. He has exhibited in the UK and other countries and his work is held in many collections. He designed a poster for London Transport in 1991. In 2010 he made a painting installation in an isolated 13th century church, St. Thomas a Beckett in Kent, based in a decade long study and transcription of the Isenheim Altarpiece

Isenheim Altarpiece

The Isenheim Altarpiece is an altarpiece painted by the German artist Matthias Grünewald in 1506-1515. It is on display at the Unterlinden Museum at Colmar, Alsace, now in France....

 by Mathias Grunewald.

External links

• http://www.youtube.com/user/BurningThePalette#p/u/4/8QImMKN3gPo