Richard Freer

Richard Freer's oeuvre is an intimate and personalized representation of natural and urban landscapes. Also exploring portraiture, the colour palette and forms are distinct, vibrant, and breath-taking.
Born in Leicester, UK in 1976, Richard’s natural-scrapes provide scope to a novel vision, almost bordering on complete abstraction. From a close-up view to a generic horizon rendition, Richard practices oil paintings, watercolours, and drawings
Graduated in Fine Art in 1999, Richard had attended the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. Later he received a master's degree from De Montfort University in 2004. Impressionist in style, Richards oeuvre constructs a junction of departure from the same ideology. The landscapes appear real formally but digress in the realm of colours.
Richard’s attention to small details like a stroke of sunlight, or a small twig, or a reflection over sea marks his distinguishing and original style. And, most importantly, the consistency of the method pervades through his practice.
Intuitive and emotional, the responses to the natural surroundings in his paintings are solely dependent on the medium and moment. Notably, it unfolds a substantial relationship between the material and...

University of Greenwich - 2010 - 2012 PGCE.
Demontfort University. 2002 - 2004. MA Fine Art
Leicester College.1999. Stage 1 Certificate For Teachers
University of Hertfordshire. 1996 - 1999. BA Hons in Fine Art
Loughborough College of Art and Design. 1995 - 1996. Diploma, Foundation studies in Art and Design

. Group show, Novus Conceptum, Hannah Busch Gallery, Bellaire, USA. 2016
. Master of light - Solo show, Fractal Contemporary, Norwich. 2009
. Group show, Modern Artists Gallery. 2008
. Work exhibited at the Edinburgh Art Fair with Gallery One 2006.
. Work exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair London with Gallery One 2006.
. Affordable art fair – Bristol 2005.
. Affordable Art Fair – London 2005.