Bob Noreika a prominent national award winning artist and illustrator, his paintings hang in both corporate and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. In November 2009, the New Britain Museum of American Art acquired for their permanent collection a piece from his Turtleesque series, “Catfish with Turtle”. Bob’s work is also featured in “100 Artists of New England” by
Schiffer Publishing. He is represented in numerous galleries and teaches and lectures throughout New England. He has illustrated several children’s books and magazine editorials. Bob is an elected member of the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic, the Salmagundi Club, the Lyme Art Association, the Connecticut Watercolor Society, the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society, the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and he is a signature member of the New England Watercolor Society. His latest achievement is acceptance into this past year’s American Watercolor Society as a Signature Member where he not only won a prize but his piece was also chosen to join the travelling exhibition that toured the country. Bob’s passion for art is matched by a natural talent to paint a wide variety of subjects, highlighted by expressive coastal scenes, intimate woodland pictorials and seasonal treks through the countryside. He has been inspired by the many pleasurable memories of his boyhood; which was spent joyfully fishing, and catching turtles and frogs. Bob works in his studio in Rocky Hill, CT and wherever the beauty of nature catches his eye. His paintings may be viewed at Art 3 Gallery, Manchester, NH; Sylvan Gallery, Wiscasset, ME; Images Art Gallery, Courtyard Gallery, Mystic, CT; Mystic Maritime Gallery, Mystic, CT; Galerie-du-Soleil, Naples FL; Fresh Ayer Gallery, Lyme, CT and on this website.
