Richard Heys
Forest Row, East Sussex, United Kingdom
About Richard Heys
I am committed to colour and forgetting. It's as if I am under siege from all I have seen and all I know. I attempt a self-forgetting, a side-stepping of rational processes to allow moments of creative innocence to arise. This side-stepping, deflecting quick answers and slick resolve leads me on a passionate journey through the worlds of colour, bother outer and inner. In the realisation of a finished work I aim to recover mystery and, in this world of the known, I work standing before the unknown.
For the last few years I have been working in a beautiful light filled studio in Sussex exploring tools and processes which disguise the hand. I have found a greater freedom through this limitation and its challenges. I explore light and darkness and pure colour journeys, working with transparency and glazing to create vibrant surfaces.
I have been a selected Pure Artist for the past three years. Three of my paintings were selected for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London In November 2016. My work is also on show at the Ashdown Gallery in Sussex & Clifton Fine Art in Bristol.
Education:
BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sunderland Uni) 1986
Diploma in Sculpture Emerson College 2001
PGCE (DTLLS) Central Sussex College 2012
Events:
Recent Events:
2014 Brighton Art Fair
2014-17 Pure Arts Group selected member & showed works at the Pure Autumn Fair Battle in 2014, 2015 & 2016
2015 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, London, 4 works selected
2015 Brighton Art Fair
2016 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, London, 3 works selected
2016 Hop Gallery Open, Lewes, 3 works selected
2016 Brighton Art Fair
2016 The Other Art Fair, Bristol
2016 The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London
2017 Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum Open, Sevenoaks, curated by Kenton Lowe of the Blackshed Gallery, one painting selected
2017 Threads Open Exhibition, Espacio Gallery, London
2017 Men's Work, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
2017 Creekside Open, London, selected by Jordan Baseman
2017 Refuge: In search of safety, Fringe Arts Bath (26 May - 11 June)
Threads Open Exhibition, Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ (4 - 15 July 2017)
Exhibitions:
Kunsthuis Gallery Summer Exhibition, Crayke, North Yorkshire (16 June - 20 August 2017)
Featured Artist, Ashdown Gallery, Forest Row, Sussex (27 June - 31 July 2017)
Summer Salon, Martyrs' Gallery, Lewes BN7 1YJ (7 - 30 July 2017)
The Other Art Fair, Bristol (1 - 3 September 2017)
The Other Art Fair, London (5 - 8 October 2017)
Kent Painters Group Exhibition, Sevenoaks (27-29 October 2017)
Solo Show, Switzerland (October - December 2017)
