Robert Cardinal, originally from Montreal, has been living on Cape Cod for most of the past forty years. In the late 1950's, he left Canada and moved to Greenwich Village, from there he followed fellow artists on their spring pilgrimage to Provincetown. He attended La Grande Chaumiere Art School in Paris. At the present time, Cardinal resides and works in North Truro. His studio, built in 1858, was one of the original elementary schools in the town of Truro.

"There is a certain nostalgia in my work, a yearning for time gone by, a more quiet time."