Richard Gilbert

A home on the Black Hill

Artwork for Richard Gilbert

A home on the Black Hill
A home on the Black Hill
Chapel in the Hills
Chapel in the Hills
The Salmon House, Uig
The Salmon House, Uig
House of the Winds, Lochmaddy
House of the Winds, Lochmaddy
Green Chapel
Green Chapel
Cabin in the far north
Cabin in the far north
Harmony, Trefasser
Harmony, Trefasser
Home visit, Blaenau
Home visit, Blaenau

Details

How would you describe the work you do and why?

I am using this as an opportunity to show a group of recent small paintings based on buildings set in the landscape. These are drawn from travels around the United Kingdom. Each building strikes me as being unique in its setting and character, but perhaps they are all connected in the space of imagination; suggesting different lived experience and different social circumstances.

For you what does being an artist mean?:

Drawing out ideas.

Describe what you call yourself/your practice?:

Landscape artist

Your practice & activities include e.g workshops, teaching:

Working towards various projects, sometimes collaboratively sometimes curatorialy.

CV & Education, relevant & leading to your artistic practice:

MA in Fine Art Cheslea School of Art, MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibitions in the last 3 years:

'Hogback Hills' at The Rodd and RidgeBank Contemporary Art Space; 'Ghost Trees' at Croft Castle NT, 'Art in a Time of Climate Emergency', Grizedale Forest; 'In Search of the Perfect Hill' at Bloom Space, Hereford and The Art Shop, Abergavenney; 'Spots of Time' at Chapel Gallery, Bromyard; 'Every Step of the Way' at Weald and Downland Museum, 'Home, Identity, Sanctuary' at Artlandish; 'Borderlands' at Knighton Community Centre

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