Born in 1951, Richard Pikesley started his artistic career at the Harrow School of Art where Ken Howard was one of his tutors. He then went on to study at the City of Canterbury College of Art in 1970 for three years. Indeed, within a year of leaving he was elected to the New English Art Club. In the same year he had his first painting accepted at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and he has continued to show there ever since. He was President of the N.E.A.C. from 2013 to 2018. He is also a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour.
Richard’s art education valued both tradition and drawing, instilling in him a love for landscape and the effects of ever changing light and weather on the countryside. As a result, his paintings are fresh, immediate and compelling. When he paints, Richard aims to capture the ‘spirit of the place’, not just to extol its beauty. What the viewer is treated to is a wonderful naturalism, an unsentimental landscape with no painterly clichés. He describes his work “Painting is a form of conversation. Painting on the spot, I’m always coping with change and movement. Dorset is the perfect place for a landscape painter to live. As you move around there is the constant variation in the scenery encountered, from chalk downland, through tight little clay valleys, open heathland and such a varied coastline”.

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