Robin Richmond (artist)

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Robin Richmond
RWS
Born1951
Philadelphia USA
EducationSt George’s English School, Rome.
Alma materChelsea School of Art
Known forPainting, Writing about art, Illustration, Teaching
Spouse(s)James A. Hampton, Psychologist
ChildrenAdam Hampton (b.1977), Max Richmond Hampton (b, 1981, d. 1981), Saskia Hampton (b. 1982) =

Robin Richmond RWS is a writer and painter.[1] 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, 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.[1]

After graduating from

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]

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.

References

  1. ^
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  2. ^ "Ben Uri collection - past exhibitions". Ben Uri Collection.
  3. ^ "Robin Richmond RWS - Biography". Bankside Gallery.
  4. ^ a b "Robin Richmond 'On Solitary Fields'". Cassone Art.
  5. ^ "Our Members". Royal Watercolour Society.
  6. ^ Kellaway, Kate (15 April 2006). "The attraction of Opposite". The Observer.
  7. ^ "The Storm Tree". City, University of London.
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  10. ^ "INTRODUCING MICHELANGELO". Kirkus Reviews.
  11. ^ "Exhibition - Mineral Histories / Robin Richmond". Coningsby Gallery.
  12. ^ "Hesperides". Artsy.
  13. ^ "Robin Richmond, citoyenne du monde". Le Populaire du Centre. 11 July 2018.
  14. ^ a b c "Robin Richmond: Reviews". City, University of London.
  15. ^ Freeman, Julian (22 March 2012). "'The Still Point of the Turning World: New paintings by Robin Richmond'". British Art Journal. 13 (1): 92–94.
  16. ^ "Larry Poons at Jacobson Howard Gallery, Robin Richmond at Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, Eric Holzman at Jason McCoy Gallery". artcritical. 22 April 2004.
  17. ^ "Sacred Geographies Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art New York" (in Italian).
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