Ray Richardson

United Kingdom  • 1964

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Born in 1964, Ray Richardson lives and works in Woolwich (S.E. London).

Ray Richardson paints everyday life scenes based from his own experience: his native area of South-East London, travel memories or personal concerns expressed through his emblematic double, an English Bull Terrier. Mixing humour, drama and social critic, his painting tells vignettes of life, from childhood to adulthood, which often echo to soul music.

Richardson shapes this material by combining “the traditional stuff of painting with the cinematic ways of looking at things": close-up, use of shadow and elongated horizontal formats. Nicknamed the “Martin Scorsese of figurative painting", his painted snapshots immortalise urban pantomime.

His sophisticated compositions refer to both pictorial tradition (Hogarth, Hopper British littoral landscapes, abstract expressionism) and contemporary cultures (American street photography, film noir movies, James Ellroy novels, mods subculture). His narrative painting depicts a whole social panorama with its own culture.


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Painting, From the Streets of South East London, Ray Richardson

From the Streets of South East London

Ray Richardson

Painting - 112 x 112 x 2 cm

$11,858

Painting, The Poacher, Ray Richardson

The Poacher

Ray Richardson

Painting - 137 x 127 cm

$14,116

Painting, I Got By In Time, Ray Richardson

I Got By In Time

Ray Richardson

Painting - 29 x 29 cm

$2,259

Painting, So Wrong it's Wrong, Ray Richardson

So Wrong it's Wrong

Ray Richardson

Painting - 20 x 71 cm

$5,647

Painting, The Free Trade, Ray Richardson

The Free Trade

Ray Richardson

Painting - 25 x 50 x 2 cm

$3,953

Painting, Kirk Vidas, Ray Richardson

Kirk Vidas

Ray Richardson

Painting - 127 x 81 cm

$10,954

Painting, Let's shake the tree, Ray Richardson

Let's shake the tree

Ray Richardson

Painting - 25 x 76 x 1 cm

Price upon request

Painting, Get your head round this, Ray Richardson

Get your head round this

Ray Richardson

Painting - 25 x 76 cm

Price upon request

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Who is the artist?

Born in 1964, Ray Richardson lives and works in Woolwich (S.E. London).

Ray Richardson paints everyday life scenes based from his own experience: his native area of South-East London, travel memories or personal concerns expressed through his emblematic double, an English Bull Terrier. Mixing humour, drama and social critic, his painting tells vignettes of life, from childhood to adulthood, which often echo to soul music.

Richardson shapes this material by combining “the traditional stuff of painting with the cinematic ways of looking at things": close-up, use of shadow and elongated horizontal formats. Nicknamed the “Martin Scorsese of figurative painting", his painted snapshots immortalise urban pantomime.

His sophisticated compositions refer to both pictorial tradition (Hogarth, Hopper British littoral landscapes, abstract expressionism) and contemporary cultures (American street photography, film noir movies, James Ellroy novels, mods subculture). His narrative painting depicts a whole social panorama with its own culture.

What is Ray Richardson’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Lively Life Scenes

When was Ray Richardson born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1964