About Robert Houser
Biography
I make, I always have. I have been working as an artist for thirty-five years.
New England, born and raised. Though I have lived in California for all of my adult life, I grew up on a farm at the edge of a woods in Massachusetts. You cannot take the New Englander out of me; it is a part of me. I’m determinedly independent, critically frugal, I don’t take myself too seriously, and yes, there’s the sarcasm. For over 30 years I have been making portraits of people, real people, as a photographer for advertising and editorial clients worldwide. Along the way, I have pictured large sculptural pieces in my mind – pieces I never had the space to create.
Fast forward a few decades of city life, and I’m back living on a farm, this time in the San Francisco Bay Area hills. When I started to carve under the shade of a 60 year old cedar, I was back home again, back in the woods of New England, back playing with trees.
