Basket Flower (2023) Digital Arts by Robert Benson

My art is about evoking calm and positive emotions in viewers. I create a high-quality photograph of inspiring experiences from the natural world, then use individual controls available in contemporary AI-based photo processing software. These controls are my brushes. I strive to create high-definition images to grace spaces where people live and work.

I was born and raised in South Texas, where I spent my childhood catching frogs and turning over rotted logs to look for beetles. I was a shy child who felt entirely at home among wild things. I remember standing alone under dark Texas skies, feeling a profound connection with the universe and everything in it. I yearned to know how it all fits together and how it works.

 After military service, I took advantage of my educational benefits and started college in my late twenties. I studied physics as an undergraduate and earned a BS degree. I attended graduate school at Texas A&M University and completed my Ph.D. in Cosmic Ray Physics there. I enjoyed a career in teaching and research as part of the Texas A&M University System. I retired in 2011 with my love for the natural world intact and ready for artistic expression.

Since retiring, I’ve developed my skills as a wildlife photographer, and my work appears in several coffee-table books and calendars and hangs on walls around the country. In 2021, I helped judge perhaps the most prestigious wildlife photo contest in North America, the Wildlife in Focus contest.

 I love using modern tools to help transform my photography into images that carry my viewers to the places and creatures in front of my lens. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : 1944
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary American Artists