THE HORIZON WITHIN

A single image — the horizon, a line where heaven meets earth — and
a lifetime spent discovering he had painted his own interior before he
understood it.

The Works of Robert Singleton

Robert Singleton was born in 1937 and began painting seriously in the mid‑fifties under a professor who had studied with Hans Hofmann. Sky, cloud, and horizon have been his subjects ever since — not as
landscape, but as a way of speaking about light and darkness, mortality and transcendence, and the thresholds between them.

Three-Dimensional Virtual Galleries 1963 ~ 2025

West Virginia 1978 | 2012
Painted on a mountaintop at Baker, West Virginia: darkness gives way to skies filled with luminous light.

Screamer Mountain 1973 | 1978
Painted at 4,000 feet in the North Georgia mountains: deep indigo spaces lit by a light from within.

Screamer Mountain – 1973 ~ 1978
Hard Edge Pastels
Pastels where hard-edged geometry meets soft, atmospheric color, order set against spontaneity.

Florida - 1963 ~ 1974
Painted in central Florida: a young artist's growth, from a first Best in Show in 1965 to a lifelong career.

Films, Talks and Writings

Until I Become Light
The award-winning documentary by Real Earth Productions, aired on PBS in 2002.

HOUSE IN THE CLOUDS: The Artistic Life of Robert Singleton
A short film portrait of the artist's life and work by Douglas John Imbrogno.

Video Recording of Gallery Talk
Robert Singleton in conversation with Clare Anderson about the Memento Mori exhibition at Gradient Project Space, Thomas, West Virginia.

The Cloud Painter and the Berlin Musician
A story of friendship across art and music.

The Art of Living: 60 Propositions on Becoming
From the Tamarack Foundation.

Comments and Correspondence

I welcome your comments, questions, and recollections. Your message is sent privately and will not be published without your permission.

© 2026 Robert Singleton · rsingleton.net