Representational painter, gallery owner and teacher, full name Robert Christopher Insoll, who trained and was articled as an accountant. Then studied art at Chelsea, 1978–9, and Falmouth, 1979–82, Schools of Art, gaining an honours degree, during 1981 being an exchange student at Camberwell School of Art. He was offered his master’s at Sussex University in 1983, but chose to settle in Cornwall as a full-time artist. In 1985 Insoll started the Artists’ Co-operative and Gallery in Portscatho, where he lived. He took part in many mixed shows, including RWA; Osborne Studio, Alberti, Catto and Llewellyn Alexander Galleries; Penzance Art Club, Penwith Society of Arts and Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall; and on the continent, including Paris Salon, in 1992 being a prize winner at La Fédération Nationale de la Culture Française, Deauville.