Artist Demonstration – 10 April 2026
Rod Bastable
A Landscape in Pastels

This artist demo will take place on 10 April 2026 in Market Hill Rooms, Fish Hill, Royston SG8 9LB (map). The demo will start at 7.30pm and end at 9.30pm.
Free for members of Royston Arts Society – Non-members £4.00 payable in cash on the door.
No need to book!

Rod Bastable is a Bury St Edmunds based artist.

He spent his formative years in a rural environment, which provided the base for his artistic interests. His father worked as Head Gardener on the Stanley House Estate in Newmarket, ‘the home of horse racing’, which is reflected in Rod’s current artworks.

He attended Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design for his Foundation Studies. He proceeded to study landscape and portraiture. The works of Michelangelo and Turner were to provide his inspiration, as were the words of Vasari and Ruskin.

Working in a range of media, he has had many one-man shows and a wide range of commissions in both portraiture and landscape. He combined a career in the Engineering world, while at the same time experienced success as an artist. In 1985 he exhibited at the Royal Academy.

He paints in acrylic, and on smaller works he prefers to use soft pastel on Ingres faced card, because of the grainy, particle pixelated effect.