Bob Voigts grew up near Chicago, IL. Mostly self-taught, he works in acrylic, mixed media, collage, as well as digital media. He launched Wordsworth Design, a graphic design business in 1986. His experiments in collage and assemblage and his personal study of art history have been the biggest influence in his work, as well as the landscapes of Illinois and Missouri. He is particularly fond of the American artists Joseph Cornell and Robert Rauschenberg.