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".