Robert Silverton began his art training at The Workshop Art Centre at Willoughby in 1988 with enrollment in a live drawing class. Since then he has continuously attended classes in oil painting at The Workshop Art Centre where over the past five years he has received tuition under Sarah Mufford. Although he began his art career later in life he has been exposed to colour and proportion through a career of forty years, spent in the clothing industry, as a manufacturer of children’s clothing.

His focus is entirely on oil painting, a medium which he enjoys, and which gives a rich expression to his work. Currently, his main focus is on Landscape Painting as illustrated by the works exhibited.

At the opening of the annual Lennox Street Studio’s Exhibition (2010), Edmond Capon-Director of The Art Gallery of NSW- in his opening address, described paintings by Robert Silverton, as “ Gently abstracted Forest and Urban Landscapes.”

Perhaps the best way to describe my work, is to quote Austrian artist, Gustav Klimt 1862-1918.
“I have the gift of neither the spoken, nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me as an artist, the only notable thing – ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do”.