Biography

French artist born in Rennes and settled in Britain since 2001, Richard range extends from activism to art community projects to also spontaneous artist interventions and performances as well as pursuing his graphic work where he does not content in one style or one technique.
He started oil painting in his early teens where he has shown promising abilities just as he did in his pencil portraits and he nurtured a deep passion for seascape and the ‘avant-garde’ of modern painting from the end of the 19th.

He has an obsession with representing human figure, portraits and melancholic landscapes.

Just 15, He spent his first summer painting with oil, roaming on his own the coast around Erquy in Brittany where his father took a seasonal position with a local butcher. There, he admired the work of a couple of established artists such as Maurice Bernard and goes painting for the day on three occasions with a talented palette knife painter.

Back to town the following winter, he enroled in a traditional art group in Rennes “atelier du Thabor”  for two years before to resume, like all late teens ,an hectic social life in the infamous “rue de la soif”( thirst street).

Early on, he is aiming at producing quality pictures that he could also sell to gain a financial independence from a system  that he early recognized as paternalist.

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and restrictive.

He later on was involved and supported the re-emergence of Reggae Roots in France and Techno Music Free Party and has organized a few events with his friends, but also selling his pictures on the coast of Bretagne (Fr.) during summer time.

He painted during 2 years when living in South London mainly using quick sketching methods and watercolour but resume a normal day job when he arrived with his patner in Gravesend in 2003.
He only has properly restarted his art activity in 2009 when he enrolled on a Art degree with the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) where he received a BA(HON) in Fine Art at the Canterbury campus in spring 2013, concentrating principally his practice on sculpture methods with an interest in the theories of Social Sculpture.
He is now working on strengthening his portfolio and he is taking commissioned work.