Richard Kattman

Painting is my passion. Landscape architecture is my profession. I paint large abstract canvases plein-air by the ocean in Rhode Island, and in the vineyards of Tuscany, Italy.

My paintings are about nature, and the nature of painting and drawing. Through color, line, and the creation of form, I search for order and meaning.

Thematically, my interests center on the landscape abstracted, and pure abstraction in painting. Aerial perspectives, shorthand figure markings, spectrum paints, accidents, and deliberate risk engage, disrupt, and enhance my Art.

Over the last several years, I have completed extended stays at Artist's Residences, including Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA; Tuscany; Nantucket; and Wyoming. These places greatly influence my work emotionally, and fill my canvases with the light, landscape, and culture observed in these dramatically different environments.

As a traditionalist, love of family, world travel, classical literature and music, hiking, and gardening provide life’s greatest pleasures.

Galleriy representation includes Saatchi Art, Singulart, Providence Art Club, Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, DeCordova Museum Corporate Lending Program, and Gallery Twist

Richard's award winning ...

Rhode Island School of Design, 1973
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Pennsylvania State University,
Certificate of Graduation Ornamental Horticulture, 1967

LA MACINA DI SAN CRESCI (Italy): Richard Kattman Abstract Paintings, Jan-Feb 2023

CAPE COD CULTURAL CENTER,
"Winter Magic", March 2022

GALLERY TWIST, "Fresh"; SEP 2024

PROVIDENCE ART CLUB, " The Color of Experience", June 2025; "Class" and Winter Members Shows, January 2022-Present; "The Big Show", January February, 2023, 2024; August, 2021; "Perspectives"; March 2021; Members Exhibition, 2023, 2020; Summer Show, August 2020; Class Exhibition 2020; Linden Place Show 2020; Winter Members Exhibition, 2019; New Members Exhibition, Sep, 2018; National Open Juried Exhibition, 2013

WAYLAND ARTS, "Paros", November 2021;
Abstract Paintings, August, 2019; April 2019

MPRESSA E ARTE", Il Cotto Toscano S'Illumina, Nel Giardino del Zago, September 28, Strada in Chianti, Italy, 2018

ARTS AND BUSINESS COUNCIL OF BOSTON, Corporate Lending Lending Program, 2015-Present

DE CORDOVA MUSEUM, Lincoln, MA
Corporate Lending Program, 2012-Present

GALLERY BLINK, Lexington, MA,"Humdrum" 2019,"Illuminations" 2018, "WORDplay", "Connections", 2017

HOTEL ALOFT, Lexington, MA
"Red Yellow Blue", 2018

GALLERY 360, Florence, Italy, 2016, EmozionARTE!,

ARTSPACE MAYNARD, Maynard, MA
"Plein-Air Abstractions", 2016

FRUITLANDS MUSEUM, 2014
"Transce...