Robert Carter is a full-time representational painter in oil and oil pastels in the American Impressionist tradition. His art primarily consists of landscapes and seascapes, based on scenes from Cape Cod, Boston’s South Shore, and greater New England. His approach to oil painting was developed from extensive self-study and under the tutelage of the late Copley Master Artist William Maloney, O.P.A., whom he considers his principal artistic mentor. He has also studied with the late Don Stone, N.A., Stapleton Kearns, and other prominent working artists.

For his oil paintings, Bob uses a limited palette composed of the primary colors (red, blue, yellow), orange (a convenience color), and white. He uses no tube purples or greens, preferring to mix these from primaries. His only earth pigments are yellow ochre and burnt sienna. As with Monet and his followers, Bob uses no black. His preferred support material is oil-primed linen. Paintings may be created on site (en plein air), from reference photographs, or from memory.

For his oil pastel paintings, Bob uses Sennelier pastels, which were originally developed for Pablo Picasso at his request in 1947. These are occasionally supplemented with certain hues of other makers’ artist-quality pastels. The support for his oil pastel paintings is Canson Mi Teintes Touch, a heavyweight sanded paper with a grit surface. All oil pastel paintings are framed under museum glass or non-glare acrylic.

Robert Carter is a juried Artist Member of the Cape Cod Art Center, and his works often can be seen at the association's shows at the gallery on Route 6A in Barnstable, MA. He is also a juried Associate Member of Oil Painters of America, an Associate Member of the American Impressionist Society, an artist member of the Provincetown Art Association, and an artist member of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. His website is www.robertlcarterart.com. He can be contacted by email at robert.carter@umb.edu or by phone at 617-233-5671. Follow him on Instagram and Threads at robertlcarterart, on Facebook at Robert L. Carter, and on Bluesky at robertlcarter.bsky.social.