Well its 3 days to the exhibition opening and I'm pretty nervous I've posted most of the paintings up on my page for you all to have a look at and leave comments. I also wanted to share my first real art review with you all written by a famous author, art critic and collector Mr Tony Hickey :

Extract of Mr Hickeys review “Keith Richardson is a painter whose response to the scenery around Lisadell House has produced paintings concerned with quiet, uninhabited places where trees and sky, stream and rivulets merge to create ‘contemplative’ paintings that need to be looked at again and again to allow them to reveal secrets that lie under the soft, subtle, aqueous palette.

His new works exhibition at Gallery Zozimus are a complete departure from the earlier works. Here Richardson is concerned with the seascape of Co. Sligo. There is none of the softness of the landscape paintings. He explores the harshness of rocks, of promontories, of stormy seas. Some of the canvases, such as ‘The Curse of Lir’ painting, are huge - throbbing with energy. This is a world where the only sign of man are the telegraph wires where wild birds perch. And, as with the landscapes, these new paintings need to be looked at, not glanced at, to allow them to reveal their secrets. Mosses on rocks. A tiny house or cabin. A meeting of sea and sky.

A new comment from a truly excellent painter”.

The Exhibition opens on 19th of November at 6pm till late and runs until the 6th. December 2009.


Hope you all like the work

later
Keith