Richard Wheeler
Richard is a landscape and seascape artist. The inspiration for his work is a longstanding appreciation of the history, variety and beauty of the English landscape, especially the coastal landscape, and its interpretation by great artists over time. His boyhood upbringing in the New Forest and on the south coast is reflected in his paintings which are in a semi abstract, impressionistic genre. The relationship between art and poetry, especially of the sea, is reflected in his art. He works mainly with a palette knife in oil and acrylic.
Richard is an historian by training. Only in retirement has he found time to realise his full artistic potential. Born in Southampton, he has lived, worked, painted and exhibited in Dorset, Hampshire and Hertfordshire.
Exhibition venues
2017
Herts Visual Arts Open Studios St Albans
Aldenham Art Festival Herts
Mentmore Art Festival Bucks
Ayot St Lawrence Art Festival Herts
Watford and Bushey Art Society
Van Hague Garden Centre Chenies Herts
2018
Hatch Gallery Christchurch
Christchurch Arts Guild
Saltmarsh Gallery Lymington
Aldenham Art Festival Herts
Mentmore Art Festival
Radlett Art Society Herts
Watford & Bushey Art Society
2019
Hatch Gallery Christchurch
Saltmarsh Gallery Lymington
Christchurch Arts Guild
Aldenham Art Festival Herts
Ayot St Lawrence Art Festival Herts
Mentmore Art Festival Bucks
Claydon House Bucks: Peter Keegan Art National Trust ‘People’s Landscape Exhibition’
Greyhound Hotel Aldbury Tring Herts
2020
Hatch Gallery Christchurch
2021
Reveley Lodge Art Gallery Elstree Herts
Hatch Gallery Christchurch
Radlett Centre Gallery Herts
