Rich Studio - An Online Exhibition Space For Leeds Based Artist Richard Baker
An Online Exhibition Space For Richard Baker
The paintings are constructed from layers which are vigorously drawn into as often as they are painted over. By making use of drawing, photography, digital manipulation and the different stages of the paintings themselves, as reference material for each work, my aim is not to create a realistic depiction of a space but to create a sustainable construct which hovers between the real, the remembered and the imaginary. The application of paint and the drawing techniques employed alternate, between a rigid, measured and restricted approach and a more gestural, expressive method. The conflict created between the uses of different techniques gives the paintings a sense of movement that is at once at odds with the stillness of the subject.
LATEST NEWS
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2009
June 8th - August 16th
Richard has been included in this years Royal Academy Summer exhibition. The featured painting is ITC007
The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition is the largest open submission contemporary art exhibition in the world, drawing together a wide range of new work by both established and unknown living artists.
Now in its 241st year, the exhibition includes around 1200 works, the majority of which are for sale.
This year’s exhibition coordinators are Royal Academicians Will Alsop, Ann Christopher and Eileen Cooper, and the theme is Making Space.
It is hoped that this will be explored in all mediums throughout the exhibition both within the works exhibited and in the format of the exhibition itself
For more information visit:
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer-exhibition
On Your Wall - Leeds Met Gallery
Richard will also be featured in 'On Your Wall' at Leeds Met Gallery.
Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th July. 12-4pm
For more information visit:
http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/arts/whatsone.htm