Description

Richard Whadcock – Abstract 2

Artist – Richard Whadcock

Title – Abstract 2

Oil Paining on Paper

Supplied in Original Frame – Framed Size – 24 x 24″ Inches

Richard Whadcock – Abstract 2

“The Paintings Are Pared Down To A Minimum In Line, Form  And Colour. They Need To Invite You In As A Viewer And Compel You To Linger, Wander Through Them And Evoke A Private, Personal Response.”

Richard Whadcock

Richard Whadcock is one of the UK’s leading contemporary artists, specialising in dynamic atmospheric paintings. His contemporary landscape paintings explore the South Downs and East Sussex coast. Trying to capture its ever changing dramatic atmosphere from silent stillness to squally days. The South Downs are only a starting point as the paintings themselves eventually take over and follow their own path creating their unique surface landscape.

History

Richard studied fine art painting and printmaking at Bristol Polytechnic and then went on to complete his Masters at the Royal College of Art in 1989-91. He then moved to Brighton and established his studio at Phoenix Brighton. A residency at Lowick House Print Workshop in Cumbria in 1996 further developed his printmaking but also led to painting coming more to the fore and becoming his main area of development.

“Richard Whadcock is a landscape painter but not in the usual way. The paintings seem to come out of the wall and hug you in mists. So beautiful.”