Richard Heley

Richard Heley is a Painter, live performace painter, interactive painting with children, International performance poet and storyteller. Wild surrealist, philosophical dreamer, beautiful colourist, wacky storyteller with universal poetry.

Nicholas Usherwood, Art Critic, writes of Richard :
"Performance painting, poetry slam champion, interactive art with young children - such activities are not the normal profile of a committed and intensely serious-minded and hugely prolific artist but then Richard Heley's whole creative career has not followed any remotely conventional pattern. Born in Bedfordshire in 1950, he emigrated, aged 15, with his whole family, to Australia. It was a liberating decade spent there during which he quickly and, for the first time, became aware of the strength of his creative instincts and though he would have loved to go on to art school, family economics dictated a teacher training course at the Melbourne College of Education. In the strongly egalitarian society that Australia then was, this was no advantage however, such institutions being powerhouses for social and cultural change and Richard Heley found himself among some remarkably gifted and passionate teachers, most particularly in the sculpture c...

Born in Bedfordshire but grew up and graduated in Australia.

Jan 14 -30 2014 Gallery 286, 286 Earls Court Road, London, SW5 9AS