Bob has been honored by two solo shows. His show at the Helen Jones Gallery sold out as did his show at the Kennedy Gallery.

He has been associated with the Helen Jones Gallery in Sacramento, California for twenty years.

Bob has won numerous awards. He has been awarded seven first place ribbons at the Teton County Fair. Two second place ribbons and one third place ribbon.

Bob was recognized as one of five best artists at the Northern California juried show.

One of the Senator's golf landscape paintings graces the cover of noted golf architect David Druzisky's portfolio.

The Senator's paintings hang in private collections throughout the United States.

He has received instruction from legendary landscape artist, Jim Wilcox, and from award-winning artist Bob Harper, among others.

While serving in the California Senate, Bob was a member of teh California Arts Council for four years.

The Senator was one of the featured artists at Hermes' Fine Art Gallery.

Senator Wilson has received video instruction from Helen Van Wyth, Robert Johnson, Jay Moore, Ian Roberts, Ken Backhaus, James Sulkowski, Quentin Gregory, Leonard Wren, William Palluth, Maurice Harvey, John Stobart, Susan Starback, Scott Christensen, Lois Griffel, and Kevin Macpherson.

The Senator has also honed his skills by studying the written works by many of the contemporary masters. Mr. Wilson's paiinting library consists of over 300 books on painting, some of which are exceedingly rare.

As an adjunct to his paintings, Bob Wilson is an avid collector of fine paintings. He owns or has owned paintings by most of the famous early California landscape masters including Granville Redmond, Edgar Payne, Percy Gray, William Keith, and Thomas Hill, among others.

Senator Wilson served in both the California Assembly and Senate. Bob is a distinguished lawyer and Chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The Senator received his Bachelor of Science degree from Cal Poly. He received his MPA from the University of Southern California, graduating first in his class. Bob received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego.

Bob has received distiguished alumni awards from both Cal Poly and the University of San Diego.

Mr. Wilson is listed in Who's Who and Who's Who in Law.

Mr. Wilson resides part of the year at his residence on Sugarloaf Key, where he spends several days each week painting. Bob owns several ranches in Idaho and a ranch in California, which are excellent venues for his landscape paintings. Mr. Wilson signs his paintings either "Bob Wilson" or "4W" which is his cattle brand. The brand stands for each of the four Wilsons, Bob, his wife Sharman, his daughter Sharman, and his son Robert.

Bob is married to Sharman Wilson, who is an avid collector of art. Bob and Sharman have two children. Their daughter, Sharman, graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt University majoring in neuroscience. She is attending Chicago Medical School and will receive her M.D. degree May, 2010. Sharman surprised her father on Father's Day this year by presenting him with a landscape painting she painted. According to the Senator, this is his best painting in his collection.

Their son, Robert, graduated from The University of Chicago, majoring in psychology. Robert was the pitcher on the U of C's varsity baseball team. Robert is currently attending Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is scheduled to receive his M.D. degree May, 2011.