Richard is an artist and author based in Dorset, UK. He was elected to the New English Art Club in 1974 and to the Royal Watercolour Society in 1997.
For Richard, painting is a conversation with the visual world and starts with painting in front of the subject. It is always a matter of finding equivalents, in paint, for light and space and seeing the world 'in paint' continues to be an obsession.
"Painting starts with an immediate response. Seeing perhaps an effect of light which really grabs my attention. The first step will usually be a painting, made fast enough to get the moment down. After years of working with oil paint and watercolour, their familiarity means he can rely on working quite instinctively at this stage. The moment passes and I usually needs more information especially if I feel it could become a bigger painting. The next stage will often be to make a more considered drawing, which might take many hours. Bigger paintings may spring from this material, started in the studio and when practical taken back to the location and completed on the spot."