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| Richard studied painting and printmaking at Camberwell
School of Art, known for its rigorous regime where observation had to
be right and tone and colour relationships struck exactly. These disciplines
stood him in good stead in his development as a painter. For many years he combined painting with a successful teaching career in Cambridgeshire and later in Devon. Born on the East Coast, his familiarity with the maritime environment has provided a recurrent theme in his work, although the move to Devon and subsequent discovery of Dartmoor led to a large body of work on paper. Now he works primarily in oils and since leaving teaching in 1997 he has received the Mariners Award and also won The Worshipful Company of Shipwrights Award at The Royal Society of Marine Artists exhibition of 1998, and in the following year he won the Ariel Open in Totnes. He became a member of the RSMA in 2000 and in 2002 was elected as an artist member of the Royal West of England Academy. His work has also featured in Art Review and The Artist. Pursuing maritime subjects takes him to many coastal locations, but it is invariably the quality of light that provides the major focus in his work, an element in painting that he first admired in the work of Edward Seago (a fellow East Anglian) and whose work he first admired while still at school. |
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Proprietor: Mandy de Haan
Consultant Artist: Bobbi Fulcher-Smith
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