Will Roberts

About Will Roberts

Who is it?: Actor, Stunts
Birth Day: December 21, 1907
Died On: 11 March 2000\nin Neath, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
Known for: Painting, Drawing

Will Roberts Net Worth

Will Roberts was born on December 21, 1907, is Actor, Stunts. Will has been a professional actor for 25 years. He is also a gun coach, roping coach, and Mechanical Bull coach.Will's mission: Bring back common sense and communication to our world. The show is called: The Common Sense, cause that is all we can afford Tour. I meet so many people and folks spend so much time keeping it in. They are not talking to each other, just talking to themselves, and you know what happens to folks that talk to themselves, people think they are crazy. I want to talk to folks; cause people are what is all about. Bring back the history, bring back the conversation, Bring back Will Rogers, or the next best thing. . Will Roberts - The Modern Day Will Rogers.
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Biography/Timeline

1918

Roberts was born in Ruabon, Denbighshire, the son of a railwayman of the Great Western Railway. The family moved to Neath in Glamorgan in 1918 and he studied at the local Swansea Art School under william Grant Murray. In 1945, Roberts met the Polish Artist Josef Herman. At that time, Herman was living in the neighbouring town of Ystradgynlais. They shared an appreciation of Expressionism and often painted together. Later, Roberts was to acknowledge Herman's influence on his work.

1962

Roberts found inspiration in the local community, painting industrial workers and farmers, and domestic scenes of family life. Some of Roberts' most striking works are of Welsh landscapes and he is now widely acknowledged as one of Wales's modern masters. In 1962, Roberts won the Byng-Stamper Prize for landscape painting, judged by Sir Kenneth Clark, for Farm at Cimla which was acquired by the National Museum of Wales. In 1992, he was awarded an honorary Fellowship by University College, Swansea, and in 1994 a retrospective exhibition of his work was the centrepiece of the arts exhibit at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. In 1998, the National Library of Wales accepted a donation of 600 drawings from Roberts.

2001

Roberts died in Neath, where his charcoal drawings of the Stations of the Cross may be seen in St David's Church. A memorial exhibition of drawings and some paintings was shown at the National Library of Wales in 2001.