1947年生于澳大利亚，毕业于新卡斯特大学。
 

    近30年内分别在欧洲、亚洲、澳洲和美洲的各个国家举办过个展及联展，并且多幅作品被国际美术收藏家协会收录，曾获得过美洲杯国际艺术金奖等国际艺术大奖。
 

    汉根除了艺术之余非常热爱冒险和挑战。曾参加过世界杯航海竞标赛，并在1995年获得了神秘游艇奖。由于澳大利亚电视台关于他的“飞溅的颜色”电视秀节目的关系，汉根目前正在英国、美国、泰国等地进行创作。相信不久，他也会应邀来到中国。
 

    人们总是称他为“过目不忘的画家”。因为他所描绘的都是人们生活中可以随意见到的一切。而他的技术也在近五十年的绘画生涯中得到了修订与完善。即便如此，他在绘画方面的天赋还是让世界各国艺术家称奇，他总是能够快速地勾勒出准确的画面，不假思索便能调和颜色明暗，而且他的作品总是很自然很和谐。
 

    不同于一般的文字作品，汉根总是喜欢带着浓厚的感情作画。在他看来，任何一幅作品都不需要人的讲解，因为印象主义就是观众的所看所想，也是画家的意象。所以比起实实在在的东西，他愿意画那些存在他脑中的虚幻的画面。
 

    他总是相信快乐能够带来好运。正如一次采访中他的回答“如果要我必须描绘内心的恐惧我也可以，但现在的我更乐意画积极向上的东西。因此我赞美阳光的事物。” 他的画总是充满了自信，人性和实用性，且均是歌颂真善美而避免黑暗的主题。
 

    而画画对于他来说，不仅仅是事业，是爱好，更是一种与生俱来由基因就决定了的，就像他说的，周遭的环境和画画的瘾总是促使他一次次地拿起画笔不愿放下。而挑战过去的那些伟大的画家们更是他不断创作的动力。
 

    在他的《要成为成功的画家前你必须知道的》一书中，我们看到了这样一段文字：若想要成功，基本的技法积累和对卓越的追求是不可或缺的。因为你的想法就决定了你是谁以及现在做什么。因此，成功的秘诀之一就是热情，对画画的热情。而我们的创作基于我们所看见的一切。就个人而言，一些天分，一些学习，便能找到通向美学世界的路。而诚实，尊重则是其成功的决定原则。
 

    他认为所有的画都是客观现实的反映。可能是画家眼前某个具体的东西，也可能是其脑中的想法。而很多时候，他的画作则是两者兼有的。因为他总是喜欢结合物质和精神进行创作，刻画那些源自现实并对绝大部分的人都有意义的事情，而在创作的过程当中，他总是充满了激情，即便身体休息了，想法却还在不停地超越，这也是他对于画画从不感到厌倦的原因之一。

    荣誉：
 

    1992-1994 汉根的画已经被收录进了国际美术收藏家.
    1995 他获得了美洲杯国际艺术金奖 并获得了神秘游艇奖.
        汉根总是喜欢新的东西和挑战. 目前, 他来回在美国,英国,泰国等地, 也可能他将会在任何一个他的下一个电视节目秀:飞溅的颜色需要他的地方。他近30年的时间内世界各地都有各种陈列展出。

    was born in 1947 and raised in the lush, languorous sub-tropical northern New South Wales, Australia and educated at Newcastle University.
 

    Robert has been exhibiting worldwide for the last 30 years
 

    Robert's paintings have been featured in the International Fine Art Collector (1992 and 1994). He was awarded the America's Cup International Artist Gold Medal and the coveted Mystic Yachting Award in 1995.
Robert is always up to something new and challenging. At present he lives in suspended animation between USA, UK, Thailand and wherever the next episode of his TV series ‘Splash of Color’ takes him.
 

    Robert goes about his art with confidence, humility and pragmatism. He explains, "when you look at things, you tend to concentrate on one element, a boy or girl at the water's edge, for example. It's hard to bring into meaningful vision the entire scene at the one occasion. It's all there, but it's not defined and it's that which is peripheral to the starting point. The key to impressionism is keying in the peripheral to the starting point".
Although Hagan paints varied subjects, landscapes, seascapes, western, portraits and figurative, he insists that his paintings here and there go beyond obvious recognizable subjects. This is especially the case now in 2005. He says, "Make a painting like the recognizable subject rather than executing a literal representation. It's better to paint the effect of what is there...what is left in the back of he head! That is impressionism, and that I hope is where I am."
 

    Robert's paintings have been featured in the International Fine Art Collector (1992 and 1994). He was awarded the America's Cup International Artist Gold Medal and the coveted Mystic Yachting Award in 1995.
Robert is always up to something new and challenging. At present he lives in suspended animation between USA, UK, Thailand and wherever the next episode of his TV series ‘Splash of Color’ takes him. Robert has been exhibiting worldwide for the last 30 years.


 

 【编辑：霍春常】