Robert Bush was born and raised in Palo Alto and attended Yale and UC Berkeley. A fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts allowed him to travel to Manila in The Philippines where he created a series of paintings for a solo exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Bush continued to paint and exhibit his work while also directing art centers in California and Hawaii. Travel has taken him to over 50 countries, returning to Palo Alto in 1998.
While his main oeuvre consists of large scale works of mixed-media and oil on canvas, for the last 15 years he has also produced works on silk, called "Element", currently showing at Angelico.
