Robert’s mode of painting is one that resists arriving at anything like definite shape, a closed outline, a figure posited against a ground. In his paintings, all seems fluid, each little mark or gesture occurring as a modulation of the vibrant overall space; everything shifts into something else, or is layered into something else, or is half-effaced, before it can impose itself in some magisterial way on the whole.
Being a cancer surgeon and researcher, naturally I tend to write about cancer a lot more than other areas of medicine and science. It's what I know best. Also, cancer is a very common area for unscientific practices to insinuate themselves, something that's been true for a very long time. The ideas don't change very rapidly, either. Drop a cancer quack from 2014 into 1979, and he would probably be right at home.