Robert Venosa

Robert Venosa (January 21, 1936 - August 9, 2011) was an American painter of fantastic realist and visionary paintings.

His work has been featured in numerous publications - most notably OMNI magazine - and on a number of CD covers, including those of Santana, Kitaro and Cynic.

They moved to the coastal village of Cadaques, Spain, where he lived for seventeen years and befriended the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

During their 30-year relationship they traveled the globe and taught their painting technique at such learning centers as Esalen, Omega, Naropa Institutes and the CIIS in the us as well as Skyros Institute in Greece and private workshops on Isla S'Arenella in Cadaques Spain as well as Boulder, Colorado.

Following the same processes as the classic Misch Technique, Venosa .adapted by using oil and/or (casein versus egg tempera) underpainting.