The Artist’s Reflections
Chosen from our 2021 Holiday Collection, Sir Roland Richardson takes time to reflect on these special works of art and his devotion to their subject.
“A landscape that calls to you every once in a while is like a good friend you encounter periodically. Each encounter, sometimes years apart, allows you to rediscover what endears them to you, not only to renew your bonds but to also discover a newness that the changes of time has brought.
These relationships can go on for a lifetime. Thus it has been with the Philipsburg Flamboyant and its majestic blooms. I first painted it in the early 1990’s and “Balmy Day” was painted almost 30 years later - a new old friend.”
“Every painting is ultimately an exploration of the living quality of color. Painting means to enter into a relationship with your subject whether it is a land or seascape, portrait or still life. The only vehicle of communication with the subject is through color.
By treating the basic primary colors with respect and reverence, by sensing the manner in which they wish to reveal themselves, and following their lead, we experience the magic and miracle of creation.
When a sea of satin blue goes beyond the cloth color on the table and surrounds the yellow and green to become delicious mangoes, and the red concentrates into a bowl, we see how color goes from formless to form, and we are delighted by the experience.”
“Charcoal to me is magical, mysterious and mystical. How is it possible that the feather-weight dust of a burnt piece of wood can have delicacy and boldness, sensuousness and ruggedness, and can transform a plain piece of paper into the presence of a living being?
It’s range of expression reaches back to the most ancient times. It has allowed every artist throughout millennia a means of personal expression able to adapt to every whim of style and subject and still maintain throughout, an eternal quality - from the first cave dwellers to the Renaissance to Impressionism and gratefully to my hand as well.”
“There are many causes for movement of the sea’s waves: wind and earthquakes, heat and cold, shallow and deep water, the rotation of the Earth. Whatever the cause, the result is that the sea is always, eternally, perpetually, in motion. That is one of the inseparable qualities of this immensity of water and its color which also reflects its constant and ever-changing character.
Everytime you come to the sea to paint or ponder, it will always be what it is at that hour, that day, and if you spend an hour or several, it will lull and mesmerize you and take you with it to experience some of its timelessness.”
Sir Roland Richardson
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