Richard Eastwood

Richard was born in West Yorkshire and graduated in Fine Art (painting) from Chelsea School of Art in 1974. Since then, he has worked full time as a painter, scenic artist, senior lecturer in drawing and scenic construction and a maker.

As a painter his real concerns are with the formal elements of picture making - line, colour, tone, texture, form and composition. His paintings are carefully constructed images with an awareness of history and continuity. He has a keen sense of his place in time and its influence on his work. Themes and obsessions are revisited over time and as a result the works themselves create their own history and archaeology. Repeat motifs from a semiographic alphabet, subconsciously evolved over many years, embed themselves in the paintings to create visual cues in an attempt to convey ideas without words.

2019 Westminster Reference Library, 2 person show 'Latin for Square'

2018 ING Discerning Eye, two pieces selected for forthcoming exhibition

2018 Visually Literate - group exhibition, Menier Gallery, London

2017 Sketch Open 2017, Two sketchbooks selected 2017 Kingston Artists Open Studio Visually Literate – group exhibition, Fitzrovia Gallery London

2016 Offene Arteliers Oldenberg, Germany Kingston Artists Open Studios

2015 Formed HoopoeHouse partnership, Temple of Mithras for Museum of London

2013 - 2014 Denise Yapp Contemporary, Monmouthshire selected group shows.

2012 - 2016 Carina Haslam Gallery, works in the gallery and various shows and Fairs including Hampstead, Battersea and New York Affordable Art Fairs

1983 - to present Partner and Director of scenic painting and construction company. Initially working in film, TV and theatre but from the early ‘90s working principally in the Museum sector producing, models, dioramas, murals, sculptures and naturalistic environments for exhibition and display. Clients have included the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne and the Really Useful Theatre Co., National Museums in the UK and abroad, National museums of Wales, Northern Ireland and Saudi Arabia. Amongst many others are the Imperial War Museum, Museum in Docklands in the UK, together with award winning museums in the U.A.E., Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the U.S.A. and Europe.

1983 - 1995 Senior lecturer Theatre Department, Wimbledon School of Art, responsible for scenic painting, prop making and life drawing within the department.

1981 - 1983 Painter and freelance scenic artist working mostly in TV commercials

1974 - 1981 Semi precious stone and metal fabrication, producing furniture and design 'objets' at Antony Redmile, Kensington.

1975 - present day practicing maker and painter

1971 - 1974 Chelsea School of Art , Fine Art (painting)

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