Robin studied for the next two years with Tibor Kalman, graduate of the Art Academy of Budapest. Robin became his youngest student. After leaving his master's studio, Robin took a job with the Republic and Gazette engraving department in Phoenix Arizona and did illustrations for both of those Phoenix newspapers. At 21 He left the world of employment forever and became a full time artist. From the sale of his oil paintings and pastels he made an exceptionally good living.

In 1975 he married Margo Mandette. Another artist with a keen business sense, Margo was the perfect match for Robin and his ambitions. The young couple's fortunes flourished. They moved into a 5 bedroom home in Scottsdale's prestigious northeastern section.

In 1981 Robin And Margo traveled to New York City to see the famous Picasso Retrospective held at M.O.M.A. Once there, they fell in love with the city and found out about New York's Art Students League. They were to return almost monthly over the next 9 years and study at the League. Due to good fortune, Robin was admitted to the work shop of David Leffel, one of America's foremost artists of the realist tradition. Upon returning home, Robin created his own style of representational painting. To name this style, he chose the word, "Perceptionism." It was his intension to describe his work in a way that would distinguish it from Impressionism. He advertised the word in trade magazines thus bringing attention to the idea of creating paintings that would combine realism and impressionism to create enhanced or embellished realism.

In 1989 the couple took an apartment in New York's Greenwich Village to be closer to the art scene in New York City. The following year they opened a gallery in So Ho on Broome street. During the winter months, Robin ran the New York gallery while Margo ran her galleries in Arizona. By 1991, running galleries on both sides of the continent, became too much of a strain, so having tasted both the East and the West, the couple opted for the large spaces and the comfort of the West. Their studio in the town of Jerome Arizona has over 20,000 square feet of work space and gallery display. It is open to the public from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM daily. Margo Mandette also has a gallery in uptown Jerome called The Angel's Inn.

Extraordinarily talented, she was admitted to the Belle's De Artes Academy at 13. By 17 she had traveled to the United States numerous times. Because of his activities in South American politics on the side of the poor Gabriel Mandette (Margo's Father) was assassinated. At nineteen, Margo and her mother fled South America with what they could carry on their persons. The following year, Margo's mother died of a broken heart.

Margo toured the United States with a cousin to try to heal her own sense of loss and grief. After 2 years Margo and her cousin settled in Mesa Arizona and began to teach Catholic Parochial School. Margo's exceptional abilities as a teacher became evident. Soon she was teaching her talented students art after school. Her extracurricular art classes expanded enough to open her own gallery and teaching facility. She called it Casa De Artiste's and showed the work of many prominent local artists and taught there as well.

Like her husband, she earned more money from selling her own art than she did all year as a teacher. Soon she became a full time artist. In 1975 she married Robin Anderson and together the couple has shared 25 years of success and happiness. Currently they maintain a residence in Jerome Arizona and open their studios to the public. Visitors from all over the world have toured the spacious galleries in what was once the Old Mingus High School. Now renamed the Old Mingus Art Center, the building houses an extensive collection of artwork by Margo Mandette and Robin Anderson.