Robert “Bob” Guy Walls (8 June 1927 – 11 November 1999) was a painter born in Upper Hutt, New Zealand.

[13] By the 1970s, Walls was finally obliged to obtain employment to ease the insecurity of living off an artist’s income.

Here, he worked as a curator until 1992 in the Prehistoric and Romano-British Departments,[15][16][17] among other things being involved with arrangements for the famous Lindow Man and in displaying the Vindolanda Tablets, the earliest written materials yet found in Britain.

[20] Walls painted using various media, including oils, water colour and pastels, and gouache.

His works are typically of land, sea and townscapes, the landscapes being mainly those of Yorkshire, Scotland, Spain and New Zealand.