David Richardson

David Richardson


About

EXPRESSIVE SYMBOL-SURREALISM - A ONE MAN MOVEMENT:
My name is David Richardson (born 1970), and I live and paint in Cambridge UK. I orginally arrived at Cambridge in 2000 to conduct some Ph.D research at the Plant Science Department, Cambridge University in the area of Evolutionary Plant Physiology for the American Multinational Agrochemical Company, Monsanto www.richardsonphd.blogspot.com. However after encountering a number of religious visions I turned away from science to art to become a painter. Painting being a subject I'd had a formal training in and had some success at, during the late 1980's and early 90's, training under the Neo-Expressionist Andrew Paisley in Bournemouth. Neo-Expressionism developed as a reaction against the Conceptual and Mininal art of the 1970s. It returned to portraying recognizable objects, such as the human body (although sometimes in an abstract manner), in a rough and violently emotional way using vivid colours and banal colour harmonies. From this background I developed my visual ideas and style I have today.

If I could properly categorise my art in just a few words then I would call it Expressive Symbol-Surrealism as it crosses several major artist styles. What makes the style Expressive is the colours I use, as I generally choose stark, high toned, primary and secondary colours, and put them together discordantly (colours on dog-leg on the colour wheel) to create an 'other worldly dream-like' effect. In some of my work I use a black background as a phenomenal space to place unusual characters in, that have become personified, coded expressions, of human emotion at an archetypal level, fitting my work into the category of Symbolism. In my investigations into the mind, I have managed to construct the kingdom of Mr Mole (my painting alter-ego), a vehicle to carry messages from the subconscious, to the world. This psychoanalytical aspect of my work which involves dream interpretation is Surrealist in nature. Ultimately, I want my work to be an aesthetically pleasing, self contained story, that the observer can visually read with assistance of the title and description, and by the end of their observance of my work, they are not left feeling stupid.

Currently I'm working on a collection of 12 New Testament inspired paintings that I have called 'The 12 Apostles of Cambridge'.

A recent achievement of mine, has been for one of my painting's (Going high version #5) to appear on the front cover of October's edition 2012 of The British Journal of Psychiatry.

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/201/4.cover-expansion

Also one of my paintings appeared on page 2 of International Art Journal 'Raw Vision' issue 78 2013

http://issuu.com/raw-vision/docs/rv78?mode=window
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Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Website
http://www.molemanart.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/davidrichardsonart
Work
Artist - Expressive Symbol-Surrealsm
Education
1999- 2001 St John's College, Cambridge
PhD in ''The Evolution of Early Land Plant Physiology'' http://www.richardsonphd.blogspot.com

1996 - 1999 University of Plymouth BSc Biology · 1st Class Hons

1990 - 1992 Shelley Park College of Art And Design - Boscombe - Art and Design Foundation

1988 -1989 Redlands - Bournemouth & Poole College in Dorset A-Level · Art
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Friends

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  • Jaap de Vries
  • Maria Aparici
  • Claudio Parentela
  • Helena Wadsley


David Richardson
United Kingdom
Original $1,800

David Richardson
United Kingdom
Original $700

David Richardson
United Kingdom
Original $2,500
Prints from $40

David Richardson
United Kingdom
Original $2,000
Prints from $40

David Richardson
United Kingdom
Original $1,500
Self portrait of David Richardson 1996
The last supper
Elephant hallucination
Handing yourself over to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Paranoid in Plymouth #2
Love and Trust go for a walk
Hari Krishna as a rabbit with friends


Events & Exhibitions

Exhibitions

'The Visionary Art of David Richardson' The Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge June 10th - 15th 2013

'Outside in - East' at Ruskin Gallery Cambridge March 20th - April 4th 2013

'Lifecraft Arts and Crafts Show' - The Bath House, Mill Road winter fair Cambridge - December 2012

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Favorite Art

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    Ascension #3
    Nightview
    Metro, Paris
    Wolves and Hares
    untiteld
    July 25, 2011
    June 29, 2011
    Torero.