User:Aenikarl/sandbox

Robin Richmond RWS is a writer and painter. Her work is in private, corporate, and museum collections all over the world and she has had over 35 one woman shows. She is the author of five books on art, translated into 12 languages. She has also illustrated three children’s books and has taught painting and art history in many academic institutions including the University of California, Santa Cruz, Yale University, and the University of London. She has lectured widely and has been a regular contributor to BBC radio arts programmes.

Biography
Born in Philadelphia to expatriate American parents, her childhood was spent in Italy where she grew up surrounded by Classical, Renaissance and Baroque art. This was to have a profound effect on her development both as an artist and as a writer. She attended the English school in Rome, and in 1970 she moved to London to study at the Chelsea School of Art, where she obtained a B.A. in Fine Art (1974) and a M.A. in the History of Art (1975).

Career
Growing up in Rome, with Caravaggio, Michelangelo and Bernini on her doorstep pointed her towards figurative painting, studying with Renato Guttuso at the Belle Arti in Rome. Her early work is very figurative and based on direct observation, owing to these childhood influences.

After graduating from Chelsea in 1975, Richmond began a long career in teaching and writing but was primarily focussed on her own painting. She had her first one woman show of paintings at the Ben Uri Gallery, London in 1976. Since then, she has exhibited regularly in London, New York, and at regional galleries in France, the USA, and the UK. She held the post of Visiting Professor in Art at the University of California (1985), and at Yale University (2002).

In 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Watercolour Society.

Richmond’s painting has evolved over the years. In the early 1990s she was associated with the kind of figurative work that was shown at her gallery at the time, the Mercury Gallery in Cork Street. On leaving this gallery, she began a long tenure at the prestigious Curwen Gallery in Fitzrovia, London where she had solo shows every two years for over 20 years.

Selected publications

 * Richmond, R. (2017). Living Landscape. London Curwen Gallery and the White Stork Press. ISBN 978-0-9552060-1-6.
 * Richmond, R. (2006). The Storm Tree. London White Stork Press.
 * Richmond, R. (1994). Frida Kahlo in Mexico. London and Petaluma Pomegranate Art Press.
 * Richmond, R. (1992). Introducing Michelangelo. London Little Brown and Co.
 * Richmond, R. (1992). Michelangelo and the Creation of the Sistine Chapel. London Barrie and Jenkins; New York Random House.
 * Richmond, R. (1992). Animals in Art (The Story in a Picture). Nashville TE Ideals Publishing
 * Richmond, R. (1992). Children in Art The Story in a Picture. Nashville TE Ideals Publishing

Selected articles

 * The Art Newspaper, 1998. The wings of a butterfly, Bonnard at the Tate Gallery March, p.16, Issue 79.
 * The Art Newspaper, 1998. The frog and the swallow reunited Frida Kahlo in Copenhagen, Issue 78, February.
 * The Art Newspaper, 1988. The playful Klee.
 * Modern Painters, 1998. Berthe Morisot at the Musée Marmotton.
 * Modern Painters, 1993. Finding the Vortex (Henri Gaudier-Brzeska), Autumn, pp.80-82.
 * Modern Painters, 1993. Thoughts about a Bird Bath (Henri Gaudier-Brzeska), September.
 * Modern Painters, 1992. Close Encounters with Michelangelo, Summer, pp.72-74.

Awards and honours

 * Royal Watercolour Society Arthur Wise prize, 2023.
 * Royal Watercolour Society Associate Fellow, 2018, Fellow, 2022.
 * Yale University Fellow of Morse College, 2002
 * Jacob Mendelsohn Memorial Foundation Scholarship, 1982
 * Chelsea School of Art BA (Fine Art) 1974, MA (Art History) 1975

One-Person Shows

 * 2022 Mineral Histories, Coningsby Gallery, London
 * 2019 Hesperides. Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway, Gloucestershire
 * 2018 Caldera. Hotel de Ville, Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche, France
 * 2017 Lodestone. Piers Feetham Gallery, London
 * 2017 The Art Spaces, Cass Art, London
 * 2016    Living Landscape. Curwen Gallery, London
 * 2014 On Solitary Fields. Curwen Gallery, London
 * 2012 Retrospective Chateau d'Excideuil, France
 * 2012 The Still Point of the Turning World. Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London
 * 2011 Morse College, Yale University, New Haven CT
 * 2010 Sermons in Stones. Atrium Gallery, City University London
 * 2010 Stones of the Sky. Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London
 * 2008 Landscape Mysteries. Curwen and New Academy Gallery
 * 2007 Glaxo Smith Klein, London
 * 2006    Watercolours from The Storm Tree, Curwen and New Academy Gallery
 * 2006    Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York City, USA
 * 2005 Between the Real and the Ideal. City Atrium Gallery; City University, London
 * 2005 Sacred Geographies. Curwen Gallery, London
 * 2004 Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York City, USA
 * 2003 Galerie Artset, Limoges, France
 * 2003 The Land, the Water, the Air, the City. Curwen Gallery, London
 * 2002 Icarus. Curwen Gallery, London
 * 2001 Peck Gallery, Providence RI, USA
 * 2000 Southern Exposure Gallery, Florida
 * 1999 Yew Tree Gallery, Slad, Glos.
 * 1999 Curwen Gallery, London
 * 1998 Vessels. Curwen Gallery, London
 * 1994 Rebecca Hossack, London
 * 1992 From Bone to Stone. Mercury Gallery, London
 * 1992 Michelangelo Studies. Barbican Gallery, London
 * 1990 Mercury Gallery, London
 * 1989 Mercury Gallery, London
 * 1987 From the Distance. Boundary Gallery London
 * 1980 Off Centre Gallery, London
 * 1976 Garnett College, Roehampton Surrey
 * 1976 Ben Uri Gallery, London
 * 1971 Galleria Ariete, Rome