Robert Braybrooks
Rob Braybrooks Having studied Mechanical Engineering, Rob worked as a Design Engineer developing prototype Agricultural and Horticultural Machinery. In 1993 he trained to teach Design and Technology, gaining a B.Ed. from King Alfred’s College, Winchester. He taught design at The Arthur Cotton Design and Technology Centre in South Africa where, working along side artists and technologists, he developed his artistic ideas. It was there that he began to appreciate how practical technologies can be used to make representations of beautiful things.
Rob Writes…When I was ten years old, I used to keep a diary of my holidays spent in Penwith. A quick flip through the pages will reveal that I would record only two things; the places we went to and.…. the birds I saw there! Thirty-two years on I still have a keen interest in natural history but particularly the connection between “place” or “habitat” and the wildlife you can expect to see here in West Cornwall. These days I keep photographic records of the birds and landscapes. I try to capture ‘real’ moments of activity and stillness.
Look east in the morning and west in the evening and the “light” of West Cornwall will create for you an outline, a silhouette surrounded by bright sky or dazzling sea. The familiar shape of a headland or a wader feeding at the edge of the water. It happens every day in this part of Cornwall.
