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...
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,...
Life between Islands: Caribbean-British Art, 1940s - now Tate Britain. There must be something in the stars. In the very week that this landmark show opens in London, Barbados has become a Republic. In handing over the keys to the Kingdom, Prince Charles has...