Robert Sadler (1909 - 2001) - Abstract Painter

Robert Sadler was born in Newmarket, Suffolk. He was the son of a racehorse trainer.

Sadler was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1930. He was an avid painter during his Military career and attended Heatherley's School of Fine Art and the Corcoran Gallery School in Washington DC, USA on postings. Robert Sadler took up full time painting on retiring in 1954. In the 46 years in which he painted full-time Robert Sadler sold some 2,000 paintings; over 1,000 more are held in trust by his son Robin.

Sadler was a member of the Winchester Art Society and the Cambridge Society of Painters and Sculptors. He exhibited in mixed shows at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, CEMA, and at the New English Art Club Centenary Exhibition in 1986. He also exhibited at the Trafford Gallery and the Ackermann Gallery, New Vision Centre, Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden and in France.

In 1963/4 Sadler moved his family to Aldeburgh where he built a new studio in the garden of their home. He held a one-man show during the Aldeburgh Festival almost every year until 2001 in his studio. He began painting mainly smaller landscapes, still lifes, figures and sometimes horses, but often turned to the abstract expressionism for which he is best known.

Sources: www.robertsadlerart.co.uk