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In the process of painting, the use of colour, paint, line, shape, texture and layering are a physical and sensuous experience for me – with the human figure as the primary subject even as it may evolve into landscape. Perhaps this experience and the result become a metaphor for the human condition in this expression and transfiguration of the human figure and landscape.
In the anatomical and gestural form of the mark-making, a human presence can be felt. It is my hope and intent that the human spirit is represented.
I am acutely conscious of my own responses in the painting/drawing process and of the forms that result. Allusions to the qualities of humanity such as gesture, sensuality and emotion become interspersed with formal attributes of colour, shape, line, texture and so on. In this sense, I intend that narrative or political or social issues become equally as important as the aesthetic concerns of these formal qualities.
Richard Reid, 2005
I have placed comments about the work with some images, and will list those in this section.
| On the Grass 7 | |
| Playboy Girl | |
| Window 3 |