Robert Worling is an amateur artist and photographer, largely self-taught. He has been painting and drawing as a hobby since childhood and has exhibited his work at the "Physician's Art Salon" in various Canadian centres, at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and in a show sponsored by the National Gallery in Ottawa.

During the years he spent in Prince Edward Island (1979 - 1989), he had a major retrospective exhibition at the Eptek Centre in Summerside and exhibited works over several years with Island Visual Artists in Charlottetown. He has paintings in collections in the United Kingdom and Germany, in addition to various Canadian provinces.

He moved to Belleville from Renfrew Ontario in late 1999 and, during his time in Belleville, he has won the Juror’s Choice Award at the 37th Belleville Art Association (BAA) Annual Juried Exhibition in 2003, the Muriel V. Andrews Award for Excellence in Design in the 38th BAA Annual Juried show in 2004 and, in 2005, he won the Bea Williamson Award for The Innovative Use of Colour at the 39th BAA Annual Juried Exhibition.

In February 2005, Robert had a retrospective one-person exhibition in the Belleville Public Library Art Gallery.

Blue Barnyard

The majority of his paintings are neither truly “realistic” or “representational” nor entirely “abstract” but all contain a strong element of design.

Almost all of Robert Worling’s paintings are done in oils or acrylics and, in some cases, a mixture of both.

In terms of genre or style, they can vary from being entirely realistic to semi-abstract and many could be described as "imaginary landscapes" - scenes that come out of his imagination and which are executed in the studio rather than "in the field."

All his paintings, however, contain a strong element of design.