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...
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The Melody of Landscape
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...
Stranger in a Strange Land – Mark Rothko
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,...
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
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...