Robert Lyn Nelson is a world renowned artist
and environmentalist who creates blissful images of marine life. A
southern California native born in 1955, Nelson proved to be a gifted
artist from the start, able to create artwork at the age of three that
was impressive to say the least. By the time he was thirteen, Nelson was
already being offered scholarships by local colleges in and around the
San Bernardino county where he lived and attended high school. At
fifteen, the very first public exhibition of his work came close to
being completely sold out. Two years later he had his first one-man
show.
Robert Lyn Nelson is widely regarded as one the founding father of the
Modern Marine Art Movement, taking the world by storm in the 1970's with
his work. His deeply detailed paintings are bursting with color and a
sense of magic and movement, bringing to life a variety of figures,
subjects and images - most notably the amazing underwater universe of
our oceans. As a diver and deeply committed conservationist, Nelson has
made quite an impact in raising awareness of the world we live in, being
named one of the nation's first "Environmental Heroes" in 1997 by
then-Vice President Al Gore. The many avid collectors of Nelson's work
comprise a Who's Who list of US presidents, movie industry big-wigs and
rock n' rollers, including the Bush and Kennedy families, James Cameron
and the Beach Boys, just to name a few. Primarily based in Hawaii these
days, Robert Lyn Nelson continues to create marine masterpieces and
support a long list of charities and environmental causes.