Richard Heys // I live and work in East Sussex, England, on the edge of the ancient Ashdown Forest - Winnie the Pooh country. I was born and raised on a farm in West Yorkshire. Close to a reservoir and the moors of the Peak District.
I work predominantly as an abstract artist, although landscapes I have visited, and grown up with inform my imaginations and resurface again and again in my work.
I also love with a passion the ethereal nature of colour and the physical qualities of paint and ground. I work consciously with the polarities of imagination and image, creating pictures of place and no-place, inner space reflections of outer place and atmosphere.
I work to remould inner spaces, to invite attention to and engagement with surface and depth, outer picture and inner soul-space, I aim to create, to borrow a phrase, "the painting as a doorway".
Crossings
An exhibition of paintings
at the Christian Community Church, Hartfield Road, Forest Row.
Tuesday 22nd Nov to 17th Dec
Opening times:
Tuesday - Saturday 10 – 1 pm
Tuesday – Friday 3 – 6 pm
I will be there to introduce my work on the following Saturday mornings:
26th Nov, 3rd Dec, 10th Dec
My students and I shall be arranging an exhibition of paintings and sculpture at Emerson College this Friday afternoon, in readiness for the F R festival. The work will be on show in the North dinning room, the closest to the bike ride stamping station.
The theme of the second London Lives competition is travel, and entrants were asked to capture the spirit of travel: from the morning commuter rush, to the excitement of a family day trip, or arriving in a foreign country...
The Gallery is to be found on the Thames Path right next to Tate Modern.
Open daily from 11am - 6pm during exhibitions | Admission Free | 48 Hopton Street, London, SE1 9JH | 020 7928 7521 | info@banksidegallery.com
The Night Series – Night Ladders
This body of work was made in response to the night, the mystery of sleep and the solace it offers. The paintings explore this ‘fruitful darkness’ and how sleep informs us, how light streams into us through our prayers and dreams. I was inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s thought of how light relates to thinking and darkness to will, so the light in these paintings can be read as knowledge returning to us from other realms.
The large canvases are painted with oil and acrylic paints on linen, and primed and unprimed cotton duck, with supporting works in Gouache on card and paper. sizes vary from 54 x 48 inches to 12 x 18 inches.
Myself and the Highgate Works artists invite you for Christmas drinks and tasty bites, at our studios and workshops. Friday 10th December. There will be ceramics, paintings, calligraphy, original woodwork, tasty bites and chocolate, Ah, enjoy!
The studios are at the Highgate Works, Tomtits Lane, Forest Row, RH185AT, for details please call Katrina on 01342 302319.I have some work from the Passing Through series on show in Tunbridge Wells. The Pantiles Edge Gallery is a stylish and interesting place to visit, with a good selection of work on show. I am delighted to join them for a time. If you would like to see my paintings in the flesh pop along to enjoy them in this vibrant gallery.
I have some work on show in Forest Row, East Sussex. Mandy and Carole the owners of the new cafe Deli 'Flavour', are very happy to show my work for a time.
'Flavour' is on Hilside, behind the Freshfield Hall, in the center of the village.
