Dunstan was particularly impressed by the abstract works. He suggested that, rather than approaching public galleries about donating works to them, or commercial galleries about holding selling exhibitions, I could achieve wider recognition for Bob's work by establishing a website and selling prints.
Sadly, Dunstan died in 2004, long before I was able to get the website up and running.
I have not made it to the prints stage, but it is exciting to think that this website will open up Bob's work to a global audience.
About this website
This website has been developed by Robert Finlayson's last wife, Anne McLean (me). I am an amateur at website design but wanted to create the first version myself, both to partly fulfil Bob's expectation that I would be the chronicler of his life and so I could work out what I wanted for the site as I went along.
I would like to thank Dunstan Taylor who first suggested a website; Bob's daughters Amara and Jess who gave me information, suggestions and access to artworks; and Luke and Baden from the UWS Design Team whose advice helped me to resolve technical glitches that I would never have been able to sort out myself.
Anne McLean
July 2008
Dunstan Taylor
Dunstan Taylor was my dear friend Claudette's husband, and although Claudette and I first met in 1987, it was not until the 2002 exhibition "Sub Specie Aeternitatus" that Dunstan saw Bob's work. He and Claudette travelled from Canberra, ACT, to view the exhibition.