Robin Richmond (artist)
Robin Richmond RWS is a writer and painter. Her work is in private, corporate, and museum collections all over the world and she has had over 35 one woman shows. She is the author of five books on art, translated into 12 languages. She has also illustrated three children's books and has taught painting and art history in many academic institutions including the University of California, Santa Cruz, Yale University, and the University of London.
Career
Born Nov 7, 1951 in Philadelphia, Richmond grew up in Rome, where the presence of Caravaggio, Michelangelo and Bernini on her doorstep pointed her towards figurative painting, studying with Renato Guttuso at the Belle Arti in Rome, before moving to London in 1969. Her early work is very figurative and based on direct observation, owing to these childhood influences.[1]
After graduating from Chelsea School of Art in 1975, where she studied with Ken Kiff, Prunella Clough, Gillian Ayres, and others, Richmond took an MA in Art History at Chelsea with Nicholas Wadley before beginning a long career in teaching and writing. Her primary focus however was on her own painting. She had her first one-woman show of paintings at the Ben Uri Gallery, London in 1976.[2] Since then, she has exhibited regularly in London, New York, and at regional galleries in France, the US, and the UK. She held the post of visiting professor in art at the University of California (1985),[3] and at Yale University (2002).[4]
In 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Watercolour Society.[5]
Artistic Development[1]
Until 1985, Richmond was known primarily as a portrait and still-life painter, but while teaching at UC Santa Cruz, she became focussed on landscape painting. Time spent at Cornell University in upstate New York in 1988 led to paintings of the fields and barns of the surrounding landscape, together with images from Amish and Mennonite quilts. As a direct result her paintings became highly colourful, fragmented and increasingly abstract.
Landscape remains the core of her work. She travels a great deal, and her paintings are often site-specific, about the spirit of place, evoked in memory. Originally painting in oils, she now paints in acrylic and watercolour.
Awards and Honours
- Royal Watercolour Society [9]: Arthur Wise Prize, 2023.
- Royal Watercolour Society: Associate Fellow, 2018, Fellow, 2022.
- Yale University: Fellow of Morse College, 2002
- Jacob Mendelsohn Memorial Foundation Scholarship, 1982
- Chelsea School of Art: BA (Fine Art) 1974, MA (Art History) 1975
Books
- Richmond, R. (2017). Living Landscape. London Curwen Gallery and the White Stork Press. ISBN 978-0-9552060-1-6.
- Richmond, R. (2006). The Storm Tree. London White Stork Press.[6][7]
- Richmond, R. (1994). Frida Kahlo in Mexico. London and Petaluma Pomegranate Art Press.[8][9]
- Richmond, R. (1992). Introducing Michelangelo. London Little Brown and Co.[10]
- Richmond, R. (1992). Michelangelo and the Creation of the Sistine Chapel. London Barrie and Jenkins; New York Random House.
- Richmond, R. (1992). Animals in Art (The Story in a Picture). Nashville TE Ideals Publishing
- Richmond, R. (1992). Children in Art The Story in a Picture. Nashville TE Ideals Publishing
Selected Art Criticism by Robin Richmond
- The Art Newspaper, 1998. The wings of a butterfly, Bonnard at the Tate Gallery March, p.16, Issue 79.
- The Art Newspaper, 1998. The frog and the swallow reunited: Frida Kahlo in Copenhagen, Issue 78, February.
- The Art Newspaper, 1988. The playful Klee.
- Modern Painters, 1998. Berthe Morisot at the Musée Marmotton.
- Modern Painters, 1993. Finding the Vortex (Henri Gaudier-Brzeska), Autumn, pp.80-82.
- Modern Painters, 1993. Thoughts about a Bird Bath (Henri Gaudier-Brzeska), September.
- Modern Painters, 1992. Close Encounters with Michelangelo, Summer, pp.72-74.
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2022 Mineral Histories, Coningsby Gallery, London[11]
- 2019 Hesperides. Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway, Gloucestershire[12]
- 2018 Caldera. Hotel de Ville, Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche, France[13]
- 2017 Lodestone. Piers Feetham Gallery, London
- 2017 The Art Spaces, Cass Art, London
- 2016 Living Landscape. Curwen Gallery, London[14]
- 2014 On Solitary Fields. Curwen Gallery, London[4]
- 2012 Retrospective Chateau d'Excideuil, France
- 2012 The Still Point of the Turning World. Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London[15]
- 2011 Morse College, Yale University, New Haven CT
- 2010 Sermons in Stones. Atrium Gallery, City University London
- 2010 Stones of the Sky. Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London[14]
- 2008 Landscape Mysteries. Curwen and New Academy Gallery[14]
- 2007 Glaxo Smith Klein, London
- 2006 Watercolours from The Storm Tree, Curwen and New Academy Gallery
- 2006 Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York City, USA[16]
- 2005 Between the Real and the Ideal. City Atrium Gallery; City University, London
- 2005 Sacred Geographies. Curwen Gallery, London[17]
- 1999 Yew Tree Gallery, Slad, Glos.
- 1998 Vessels. Curwen Gallery, London
- 1992 From Bone to Stone. Mercury Gallery, London
- 1992 Michelangelo Studies. Barbican Gallery, London
- 1990 Mercury Gallery, London
- 1989 Mercury Gallery, London
- 1987 From the Distance. Boundary Gallery London
- 1980 Off Centre Gallery, London
- 1976 Ben Uri Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
Richmond has contributed to regular group exhibitions, 1989-2024 at the Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery and Whitcomb Street Gallery, London; 1989–2016 at the Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London; and 1988–1993 at the Mercury Gallery, London.
- 2020 Gallery East, Woodbridge, Suffolk
- 2019 Fresh Art Fair, Cheltenham
- 2018 Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway, Glos.
- 2017 Piers Feetham Gallery, London
- 2017 Cadogan Contemporary London
- 2016 The Tim Sayer Bequest, The Hepworth Wakefield
- 2015 Colour, Gallery Different
- 2014 Gallery Different
- 2013 STRARTA Art Fair London
- 2013 Gallery Different, London
- 2011 Ancien Musée de la Truffe, Sorges, Dordogne
- 2008 W A L L Gallery
- 2008 Lena Boyle, Art London
- 2007 The Discerning Eye, (special collectors’ choice: Dame Stephanie Shirley), Mall Galleries, London
- 2005 Paul Sharpe Gallery NYC
- 2005 Yew Tree Gallery, Morvah Cornwall
- 2003 Business Art Galleries
- 2003 #1, Fleet Street
- 2003 Tooth and Claw. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
- 2002 Paul Sharpe Gallery, NYC
- 2002–2007 Regular exhibitions at Blackheath Gallery London
- 2001 New Acquisitions, Headquarters BP Surbiton, Surrey
- 2001 Peck Gallery, Rhode Island
- 2000 Art 2000, London
- 2000 Senior Common Room, Prior's Court School (7 commissioned paintings)
- 2000 Affordable Art Fair, (Piers Feetham Gallery, London)
- 2000 Southern Exposure, Palm Beach Florida
- 1997 Beardsmore Gallery, London
- 1996 Belloc Lowndes Gallery, Chicago
- 1996 Mary Bell Galleries, Chicago
- 1995 CSK Gallery, Windsor
- 1993 South West Arts, Dallas, Texas
- 1991 Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge
- 1991 Six Women Artists from the Mercury Gallery, Scunthorpe City Art Museum
- 1991 Bratislava International Biennale
- 1990-1994 Annual shows at Intaglio Gallery, London
- 1990 Chicago Art Fair
- 1989 Cleveland International Drawing Biennale
- 1989 – 2005 Regular exhibitions at the Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
- 1988 The Artist as Traveller, Brighton Festival
- 1987 International Art Expo, London
- 1987 Boundary Gallery, London
- 1986 Boundary Gallery, London
- 1986 The Art Connection, Boulder, Colorado
- 1985 New Acquisitions, San Francisco Fine Art Museum, California Legion of Honor
- 1983 The Contemporary Portrait, King Street Galleries, London
- 1980 Women's Images of Men, London, I.C.A., Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
- 1980 Royal Society of Oil Painters, London
- 1978 Artists for Vietnam, Gallery La Ruche, London
- 1977 Ben Uri Gallery, London
- 1977 Royal Society of Arts, London
References
- ^ a b Richmond, Robin A. (March 3, 2016). Living Landscape. London: Curwen Gallery and the White Stork Press. pp. 4–18. ISBN 978-0-9552060-1-6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ "Ben Uri collection - past exhibitions". Ben Uri Collection.
- ^ "Robin Richmond RWS - Biography". Bankside Gallery.
- ^ a b "Robin Richmond 'On Solitary Fields'". Cassone Art.
- ^ "Our Members". Royal Watercolour Society.
- ^ Kellaway, Kate (15 April 2006). "The attraction of Opposite". The Observer.
- ^ "The Storm Tree". City, University of London.
- ^ Barnet-Sánchez, Holly (1997). "Frida Kahlo: Her Life and Art Revisited". Latin American Research Review. 32 (3): 243–257. doi:10.1017/S0023879100038152.
- ^ Barnet-Sanchez, Holly (1997). "Frida Kahlo: Her Life and Art Revisited". Latin American Research Review. 32 (3): 243–257. doi:10.1017/S0023879100038152. ISSN 0023-8791. JSTOR 2504009.
- ^ "INTRODUCING MICHELANGELO". Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "Exhibition - Mineral Histories / Robin Richmond". Coningsby Gallery.
- ^ "Hesperides". Artsy.
- ^ "Robin Richmond, citoyenne du monde". Le Populaire du Centre. 11 July 2018.
- ^ a b c "Robin Richmond: Reviews". City, University of London.
- ^ Freeman, Julian (22 March 2012). "'The Still Point of the Turning World: New paintings by Robin Richmond'". British Art Journal. 13 (1): 92–94.
- ^ "Larry Poons at Jacobson Howard Gallery, Robin Richmond at Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, Eric Holzman at Jason McCoy Gallery". artcritical. 22 April 2004.
- ^ "Sacred Geographies Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art New York" (in Italian).
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