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Painter
CRANHAM Gloucestershire
Telephone: w: 01452 814546
Email: richard.straley@gmail.com
Website: www.landspeak.co.uk
A well respected and constantly developing Painter, Richards' main career was as a professional lecturer in the arts, he taught at Gloucester but continued to paint. He is an ardent philospoher and at one with Nature.
His main works are watercolour landscapes characterised by semi-abstract imagery and a rich, vibrant use of colour and texture. He has a strong sense of the relationship between the harmony in music to that found in the natural landscape. He also experiments with pigments, gold and copper leaf and with mixtures of water, following the traditions of the ancient Chinese masters. Richard says "the place where I paint is very important to me, it is mysterious and magical. " He brings together a complex tangle of ideas and feelings gathered from the landscapes he studies, he "tries to bring them into the light". Richard feels a deep spiritual message and inspiration in the passing of the seasons, cyclical growth and Life's never ending journey. His paintings are very experimental journeys almost expressions of meditation.
watercolours, acrylic, gold leaf on waterford 3001b paper, wax, spray, Different weight papers.
£200 - £800 Richard now offer PRINYS for only £30.00 contact him for full range of 32 prints.
A4. A2. A1.
Will give illustrated Talks. Life Drawing Within radius of Gloucester. Please call to discuss.
Mall Gallery London R.I Watercolour. Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Hereford Art Gallery. Brewery Arts Centre Cirencester. Chichester Art Gallery. Omega Gallery Cheltenham. Marziart Gallery Hamburg. Fiery BeaconGallery Painswick.
Mural Southampton University
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