Profile: Richard Friend

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"Using geometry, bold, vibrant colours and a powerful sense of the narrative of the countryside such as local history and folklore, his paintings are almost postcards from places that he’d like to visit.........if they existed."

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Richard Friend paints and sketches an imaginary landscape inspired by memories and longings of a childhood spent in Kent, the ‘Garden of England’. His paintings are almost postcards from places that he’d like to visit........if they existed.

His understanding and appreciation of colour is confident, impressive and definitely appealing. He revels in these bold, vibrant colours, geometry and a powerful sense of the narrative of the countryside such as local history and folklore. Churches also appear in many of the paintings, references perhaps to the unseen powers surrounding us. This narrative quality often reveals it’s self only in the closing stages of the making of a painting.

He completed a foundation course at the Kent Institute of Art & Design where he was awarded the Eric Hurren Prize before going on to Liverpool Art School where he obtained an Honours Degree in Fine Art (Painting).


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