A Dance to the Music of Time. The 200th Birthday of the National Gallery. Robin Richmond, May 10, 2025. The National Gallery has been all over the news this week. It opens to the public today. Londoners and tourists alike have been confused, irritated, curious,...
Painting Eliot Four Quartets Robin Richmond, April 10, 2025 Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. The first lines of Burnt Norton by Thomas...
Astonishing Things, The Drawings of Victor Hugo Royal Academy Of Arts, London Robin Richmond, March 18, 2025 Mention the name of Victor Hugo to anyone, and it will be his panoramic novels Nôtre-Dame de Paris ( the Hunchback of Notre Dame) from 1831, and later Les...
Siena, The Rise of Painting 1200- 1350 The National Gallery, London Robin Richmond, March 13, 2025 Mother Mary, Comfort me. The embossed municipal city seal of Siena, created in 1250, declares ; “May the Virgin preserve Siena the ancient, whose loveliness she seals.”...
Jackson Pollock, The Early Years 1934-1947 Musée Picasso. Paris Une Année Révolutionnaire, 1793-1794, Musée Carnavalet, Paris Caillebotte Painting Men, Musée d’Orsay, Paris Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, National Gallery, London December 4, 2024 Trying to overcome my...
Common Ground at the RWS Gallery, London October 10-20, 2024 Lago de Carezza, II, Dolomites, 28 x 35 cm Falling Rocks, Pyrénées, 29 x 39 cm Robin Richmond, September 12, 2024 I am a landscape painter, and my work is about the spirit of place. I travel...
In 1886, tiring of the city, Johannes Brahms left his home in Vienna for a summer holiday on Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland with a new companion, the contralto Hermine Spies. What a time it was. A combination of infatuation, delight in his surroundings, and the...
Mark Rothko, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 18 October 2023 – 2 April 2024 Ten very hazy days ago, bright eyed and bushy tailed, I set off from my studio in sleepy France Profonde for the bright lights. I have lived in Paris on and off, through thick and thin,...
Illustrations from left: Andy Warhol, 1970; Self-Portrait, 1980; Carmen and Judy, 1972 Hot off the Griddle, Alice Neel at The Barbican Centre, London, 16 Feb – 21 May, 2023 I always hope to keep an open mind when I see an exhibition, but I am...
Giorgio Morandi Masterpieces from the Magnani - Rocca Foundation, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, January 6 - April 30. I have the good fortune to live in a great city. Right now, London is a city besieged by public sector strikes and terrible cost...