Richard Price, ROI
Richard Price was born in 1962 in Upminster, Essex. At 11 years of age he started painting and drawing from observation the fishing fleet at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. Encouraged to simply paint ‘anything’ he quickly was drawn to paint atmospheric conditions and light effects.
He later studied at Portsmouth where he developed an interest in figure painting, interiors and portraiture. Price then moved to London and worked as a production design lecturer at the London International Film School having had an intensive period of instruction from his mentors Peter Proud (Production Designer) and Gareth Jones. In 2001 he started to make his own images again. Encouraged by his new mentor Jon Bowen he soon resumed his painting.
Price has shown work at the NEAC, ROI, RSMA, RWA annual opens and the RA Summer Show. He currently has work with a number of select galleries. In 2005 he won the Charles Pears memorial award for best painting by a non-member at the RSMA and is Artist in Residence for Jubilee Year at the Hurlingham Club.
Price’s work is concerned with light and atmosphere and falls within the traditions of artists such as Turner and Walter Sickert. While some of his work is done in the studio, Price is predominantly an ‘en plein air’ painter and most of his work is therefore painted immediately in front of his subject. The challenge of this type of work is in being able to rapidly analyze colour and tone at the same time as capturing the constantly moving drama of the environment.
Richard Price has recently become a member of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters – ROI.
Artist’s statement: ‘I am interested in the application of paint in order to create different effects and images that are not just mere representations of the world about us, but works of art and beauty in and of themselves. It doesn’t matter to me what techniques and ideas I explore as long as they are suited and appropriate to match the subject and my senses and perception of it. I use my mind to develop ideas but work from my heart as much as I can. It is that, I believe, is what touched others’.
Richard passed away on 15 October 2018.
He later studied at Portsmouth where he developed an interest in figure painting, interiors and portraiture. Price then moved to London and worked as a production design lecturer at the London International Film School having had an intensive period of instruction from his mentors Peter Proud (Production Designer) and Gareth Jones. In 2001 he started to make his own images again. Encouraged by his new mentor Jon Bowen he soon resumed his painting.
Price has shown work at the NEAC, ROI, RSMA, RWA annual opens and the RA Summer Show. He currently has work with a number of select galleries. In 2005 he won the Charles Pears memorial award for best painting by a non-member at the RSMA and is Artist in Residence for Jubilee Year at the Hurlingham Club.
Price’s work is concerned with light and atmosphere and falls within the traditions of artists such as Turner and Walter Sickert. While some of his work is done in the studio, Price is predominantly an ‘en plein air’ painter and most of his work is therefore painted immediately in front of his subject. The challenge of this type of work is in being able to rapidly analyze colour and tone at the same time as capturing the constantly moving drama of the environment.
Richard Price has recently become a member of The Royal Institute of Oil Painters – ROI.
Artist’s statement: ‘I am interested in the application of paint in order to create different effects and images that are not just mere representations of the world about us, but works of art and beauty in and of themselves. It doesn’t matter to me what techniques and ideas I explore as long as they are suited and appropriate to match the subject and my senses and perception of it. I use my mind to develop ideas but work from my heart as much as I can. It is that, I believe, is what touched others’.
Richard passed away on 15 October 2018.
