richardheysfineart's posterous

richardheysfineart's posterous

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".

 
Apr 23 / 5:06am

The Night Series - Songs to the Night

The work is progressing well, I've managed to get into the painting and I'm really enjoying my little studio, not so little as it enables me to have 14 or so active paintings. I have several pieces in the final stages so that feels exciting. I'm trying not to think about sales and the rest of it, such thoughts are never helpful and always stop me in my tracks and push me into 'slick' mode.

I'm thinking about framing and finishing which is challenging me, what is the best finish for these canvases, are they robust enough to go into the world? Are they rigorous enough? It's always difficult to face this rain of thoughts, and critical voices, even when other's are encouraging, are they honest? Are they enthusiastic enough? The work is the only thing of importance, and if I still love it and still discover new things day after day then it's alive. And yes, It's still alive.

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