Robert Noreika is a graduate of Paier School of Art and has been a professional artist for forty years. His passion for art is matched by a natural talent to paint a wide variety of subjects, highlighted by expressive coastal and working harbor scenes and intimate woodland pictorials. He has been inspired by the many pleasurable memories of his boyhood; which was spent joyfully fishing, and catching turtles and frogs.
A prominent national award winning artist and illustrator, Robert Noreika’s paintings hang in both corporate and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. His painting Catfish and Turtles is in the permanent collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art. He is represented in numerous galleries and teaches and lectures throughout New England. He has illustrated magazine editorials and seven books. His work is also featured in "100 Artists of New England" published by Schiffer Publishing.
He is an elected member of the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic, the Salmagundi Club, the Lyme Art Association, the Connecicut 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. In 2015 he was inducted into the American Watercolor Society as Signature Member, of which there are approximately 500 international members.
Robert has won numerous awards over his career, and two of the most important include the Robert Sanstrom Prize – $5,000 and GOLD MEDAL at the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic, and The Samuel Leitman Award at the American Watercolor Society 156th International Exhibition - 2023.