Rob maintains a studio practice in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada and Sagara, Shizuoka, Japan.
Along with 12 years living in Japan, his art studies include a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from the University of Regina, a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan, travel in Europe, Israel, Turkey, Southeast Asia and Mexico, and an artistic education provided by his father, Gus Froese, landscape painter and muralist.
Japanese cultural and culinary aesthetics have greatly influenced the way Rob works in clay; shaping his interest in the tactile experience of using a dish and in how physical qualities of a clay body inspire and direct form and function.
His friendship and collaborations with Japanese potters Kazuma Nakano and Yu Kobayashi have been an invaluable source of support, inspiration and excitement about living and working with clay.