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Richard Kenton Webb
I am one of the few British artists trained at both the Slade and at the Royal College of Art. I studied under and alongside many well-known artists and I carry these conversations in my DNA.
My teaching and practice are one and the same – for me, this is a way of life. I believe that painting is a human language that will never disappear. The materials and our imaginations fuse into a visual poetry, communicating a hidden realm. Painting is re-emerging as a vital part of contemporary discourse in art around the world, with the potential to expand across many fine art disciplines. And yet, painting is also counterculture, a refreshing non-electrical activity and can be, simply, mud on canvas. For me, colour is paint. This is an immersive experience, so I make all my own paints from pure pigments. To know colour is to probe the heart of the human condition. Since the early 1990s, when I posed the question, is colour a language?’, I have been involved in a personal pilgrimage into colour. From 2000 to 2005, I went on to create 22 diptychs representing a Colour Grammar; then, 22 sculptures as Colour Forms; and from 2007 onwards, explorations into Red and Orange, then a Warm / Cold Contrast, Yellow, and then a Light / Dark Contrast (my Conversation with Milton’s Paradise Lost). The colour Green has been my subject since arriving in Plymouth, culminating in my thesis A Manifesto of Painting. I am looking forward to exploring Blue and Violet very soon. |
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