Oil

18cm x 18cm

The colours, scale and nature of the landscape provide a constant source for Richard’s image making. The paintings are the amalgamation of the remembered, the fleetingly observed and the emblematic motifs imprinted on the retina.  The paintings are constructed using layer upon layer of thin colour that produce an intensity of pigment or create ambiguous veils of paint that vaguely describe the subject. Often painted over a coarse textured ground, layers of paint are added and subsequently removed generating a rich patination of surface. Richard is one of the Directors of the Ropewalk in Barton.