I trained at Central School of Art in London from 1968-1971, acquiring a Dip Ad in Fine Art and at Exeter University 1985/6 for an M Ed.(The Arts in Education). At art school I worked on huge 7 foot square abstract colour field paintings, but since then I have looked around me more to find images. I have been particularly interested in urban regeneration projects – buildings being built and demolished and the whole process of urban change.

Similarly, I am fascinated by wooden boat construction and their eventual decay as rotting hulks stranded on a beach. But now all sorts of things grab my attention, from road markings, reflections, and bicycles to allotments, log piles and Columbian printing presses.

Richard is a member of the 21 Group. Formed in 1967, the 21 Group of Artists is now one of the longest established groups of exhibiting professional artists in the South West. The group invites its members to produce high quality work that recognises the intelligence of the hand and the embodied wisdom born out of physical making (such as painting, drawing, printmaking) as a means to establish a robust, experiential, and authentic art practice.

The group seeks to evolve and disseminate this counter culture through exhibition and discussion. In order to foster this, and to preserve the opportunity for creative dialogue between its members, it still limits its membership to a maximum of 21 artists. The group aims to mount two or three exhibitions a year, usually held within the South West region.

Acrylic and Collage

56x73cm

 Framed