Richard Whincop

Born in 1964 at Fordingbridge in Hampshire, Richard graduated from York University 1986. In 1988 he moved to Glasgow, Scotland, becoming part of its blossoming figurative art scene.Between 1996 and 2004 Since January 2005 works from this series have been regularly shown at galleries in Glasgow, Dublin, and London. In 2010 he moved to Chichester in West Sussex.

"For me, painting has always been magical, a doorway to the imagination.

Sometimes in my youth I found paint too hot to handle. But, inspired by the old masters, I learnt to focus and direct its emotional power, designing, composing and re-working to orchestrate light and colour into a dramatic and unified imaginative vision.

Dialoguing with the art of the past gives my work a broader context, the sense of participating in an ongoing, collective artistic enterprise. But the traditional imagery takes on personal meaning as the encapsulation of my own dreams, re-framed and re-imagined.

Painting has helped me in my battles with M.E., taking me to another place, where deep emotions take on symbolic form, where their meaning can be explored and re-interpreted.

Architectural space becomes an arena where personal dreams interact with our shared cultural dreams. ...

1986 BA (Hons) Art History/English (University of
York)
1976-83 Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School,
Salisbury

2018   The Little Art Gallery, West Wittering
2016   Chichester Festival
2016   Spencer Colemen Fine Art, Lincoln
2014   Affordable Art Fair London 
2013   Moncrieff-Bray Gallery Petworth
2013   Bristol Art Fair 
2012   "Effervescence", West Dean College
2011   Open Art Competition, Pallant House Chichester
2010 'Museum Pieces' (solo show) Kelvingrove
Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow
2010  Glasgow Art Fair 
2008  Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam