John Christopher Brobbel - Artist Info

About John Christopher Brobbel

  • Biography

    Born in Hartlepool, UK in 1950, John Brobbel RBA is a painter, teacher and writer. He settled in Ireland in the 1980s and now lives and works in Dublin and is married to the artist Rose Stapleton. Brobbel studied at the College of Art, Hartlepool (1969-71), followed by Byam Shaw School of Drawing (1971-74) and then at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools in London (1974-77).

    He is a member of the RBA and the Watercolour Society of Ireland and was also elected a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. He has written two books on art technique, 'Pencil Drawing' and 'Drawing with Ink', and taught for a time at Hartlepool College of Further Education and the Cleveland ...

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