Rob Barnes studied painting and printmaking at Hull College of Art and London University in the early 1960s. He taught etching, screen-printing, lino and related surface printmaking at Keswick Hall College in Norfolk. He later moved to the University of East Anglia, Norwich where he continued teaching in the School of Education until 2006.

Rob has exhibited widely and many of his limited edition prints are in private collections, here and abroad. In recent years he has returned to producing linocuts. His work is inspired mainly by the landscape and coast of East Anglia. Effects of light and colour, weather and atmosphere contribute to the final work