grand oil paintings
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Original Oil painted from fresh blooms by Sir Roland Richardson
On location at La Samanna, Baie Longue, French St. Martin
Size: 40” x 25” canvas
Framed Size: 46” x 31” framed in white outer wood and white liner
Dated March 2010
$6,500
Custom Life-Size Fine Art Giclee on Canvas Price: $950
“For years, every Wednesday and Thursday morning,
I would invite people to come to my studio,
talk to them about Art and Light and Color,
and then paint a picture of the various flowers and fruits and cloth
that I had gathered that morning. V
ery often, the flowers of choice were bougainvillea because of
their many brilliant colors and constant bloom
despite their thorns to assemble in bouquets!”
Sir Roland Richardson
Original “Plein Air” Oil painted from life by Sir Roland Richardson
On location in the Artist’s Garden, Terres Basses, French St. Martin
Size: 44” x 36” canvas
Dated: June 2016
Price: $6,500
Custom Life-Size Fine Art Giclee on Canvas Price: $1,200
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas Commission Order is Welcome
“When suddenly you glimpse a corner of your garden,
its rhythm, its movement, the variety of its bright colored flowers,
its deep shade, the dazzling blades of grass bathed in warm sunlight,
covered by the endless blue sky – it becomes a universe.”
Sir Roland Richardson
Original “Plein Air” Oil painted from life by Sir Roland Richardson
On location on Bayshore Drive, Naples, Florida
Size: 38” x 45 canvas
Dated: May 2022
Price: $8,500
Custom Life-Size Fine Art Giclee on Canvas Price: $1,350
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas Commission Order is Welcome
“The Royal Poinciana is the largest red-flowering tree in the world.
In the Caribbean, we call it the flamboyant tree which is a declaration of its character.
From my earliest memory, I have loved the red flamboyant tree.
Now, I understand that the color Red is the symbol of something Divine.
It radiates a transformative, uplifting, ennobling, joyous presence
that is nothing less than a spiritual quality, not only felt but also seen.”
Sir Roland Richardson
Painted from life by Sir Roland Richardson
Marigot, French St. Martin
Original Oil on Canvas
72” x 30.75”
July 2012
$10,000
“In the small village of Grand Case where I grew up, you knew everyone. Certain qualities stand out as if symbolically more so than your actual knowledge or experience of them. Mr. Gilbert Denis was one of these personalities. You knew him by the ramrod uprightness in the way he walked, aloof and quiet and mysterious. I always naturally had a deep sense of respect for him, saw him as elegant and handsome and always well-groomed. I left the island for many years and when I returned, much had changed but some things not. The houses seemed smaller, my schoolmates like myself had changed and grown up, but Creole Rock was there as it had always been and Gilbert, older, was exactly as I had always remembered him - stately, elegant, quiet.
Many years again went by as I worked hard to have the courage to become the artist of my place and time. Eventually the time came when I understood that I had painted the rocks, the land, and the sea, the flowers and the trees, but now I should address the most challenging subject, my fellow men and women.
The tree does not care how you paint it, nor does the rock, or the cloud, but a person does. People are the only subject that has an opinion to express and therein is the difficulty of portraiture. That opinion is not limited to the subject only but implicates all of mankind so it took a while before I approached Gilbert.
“Mr. Dennis, I would appreciate it if you would agree if you would let me paint a picture of you with your suit on.”
“Well, that would have to be on a Sunday after mass. I only wear my suit on Sunday.”
That short exchange was like a huge accomplishment for me. I had approached this mysterious person from my childhood memory. Now I was faced with actually doing it - transmitting it onto canvas. I planned to work in the rectory behind the church, but the light was not good and there were too many people. This was a private and privileged exchange so we went to my studio gallery in Marigot. We worked on the porch, him standing with his cane and sunglasses, never saying a word until he was tired and wanted to go home. I thanked him and he looked at the painting for the first time and pointed to the gray line in his otherwise dark hair and said,
“Next time, you have to paint that white out.””
Painted “en Plein Air” from life by Sir Roland Richardson
on location at La Samanna, Baie Longue, French St. Martin
Original Oil on Canvas
Size: 84” x 60”
May 2008
$30,000
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