COMMUNITY SPIRIT: Robert Juniper with one of two paintings he donated to raise money for the Mundaring Shire Volunteer Bush Fire Brigades. Picture: Stewart Allen Source: PerthNow
LIFE LONG PARTNERS: Artist Robert Juniper with wife Trish. Picture: Alf Sorbello Source: PerthNow
WA LEGEND: Robert Juniper, landscape artist and Member of the Order of Australia died in Perth today. Picture: Colin Murty Source: The Australian
LOVE THIS COUNTRY: Juniper at Cottesloe Beach for the 2010 Sculptures by the Sea. Picture: Stewart Allen Source: PerthNow
POPULAR West Australian artist Robert Juniper has died at the age of 83.
His wife Trish confirmed today that Juniper had died from an illness.
Juniper was a painter, illustrator, art teacher, sculptor and printmaker.
He received a Member of the Order of Australia honour in 2011 for services to the visual arts. Juniper said at the time that he was "chuffed'' to receive the accolade.
"I love my country and I'm very much in tune with the landscape,'' he said.
Born in the Wheatbelt town of Merredin in 1929, Robert Litchfield Juniper studied commercial art and industrial design at Beckenham School of Art in England.
He returned to WA in 1949 and since 1974 devoted himself full-time to painting, sculpting and printmaking.
Juniper's work can be found in all major Australian public collections and around the world including the US, Asia and Europe.
Despite his success, Juniper continued living in the same place for the past 60 years in Darlington in Perth's Hills.
Juniper received many accolades for his work including the Wynne Prize in 1976 and 1980.
For his services to the arts, he was awarded a WA Week Council's Citizen of the Year award in 1979 and an honorary doctorate from the University of WA in 1984.
In 1998, he was named an inaugural State Living Treasure and in 2003 received the Centenary Medal.
He also designed the coat of arms for the Commonwealth Law Courts in Perth in 1992.
Juniper suffered a stroke 10 years ago that robbed him of the use of his left hand and became ill in October last year when fluid gathered on his lung.
Culture and the Arts Minister John Day paid tribute to Juniper, saying he was one of the state's most successful artists.
"He will be remembered for not only his outstanding works, but also his generosity to local artists" he said.
"Mr Juniper was very successful in making art accessible to all West Australians with his many public commissions, including murals, public sculptures, installations and posters."
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