Richard Stanley was born in Nottingham in 1983, though from the age of seven he grew up in a remote part of North Devon, where he spent much of his time drawing and painting his surroundings.
After obtaining distinctions in Art and Design from the North Devon College, Richard continued his education in the arts, achieving a first class honours degree in Illustration from Falmouth College of Arts. Apart from his personal painting, he works as a successful Devon-based illustrator, represented by agents in London and New York, who provide him with commissions from both national and international clients. “Training as an illustrator has provided me with the draftsmanship skills that are a key foundation in all my work”, he says.
This collection, painted in the early months of 2007, features the land along the B3306 road between St Just and St Ives, which best shows the rugged beauty of West Penwith with crumbling mines, granite walls, windswept landscape, cottages sheltering from the elements and much more.
“Many artworks from the collection are produced using an oil on paper technique”, says Richard. “I enjoy the immediacy of working in this manner and it allows me to produce spontaneous dynamic artworks on location.
“The time I spent living in Constantine, whilst at Falmouth College, encouraged me to spend increasing amounts of time painting in the open air, capturing elements of light and earth in pure impressionistic form. Developing mark making, surface textures and a fauvist sense of colour, each place I paint has an ambience, a feeling that is all around in the air, I feel it is my job is to translate this atmosphere into each brush mark I make and each colour I mix”.
Please call 01736 788911 or e-mail: gallery@greatatlantic.co.uk to reserve the painting of your choice.
Paintings may be collected by arrangement or we can arrange delivery from as little as £20 depending on size and distance. Money back if not entirely satisfied (provided we are informed within 3 days of your painting being collected/delivered). Cheques and all major credit cards accepted. Colours may vary between the original paintings and the reproductions shown here. All paintings are framed .
Mine, granite walls and bracken
18 x 24” 45.5 x 61cm oil on paper
Rosemergy chimney and engine house
47 x 47” 119.5 x 119.5cm oil on canvas
Barn, Morvah
22 x 30” 56 x 76cm oil on paper
Old, rusty, broken gate, a short walk from Gurnard’s Head
22 x 30” 56 x 76cm oil on paper
Chimney though gorse and bramble hedge
39 x 39” 99 x 99cm oil on canvas
Boscarn Cottage overlooking Carn Galver Mine
22 x 22” 56 x 56cm oil on paper
Rain cloud over chimney, Hellesveor
22 x 22” 56 x 56cm oil on paper
Engine House, February
18 x 18” 45.5 x 45.5cm oil on paper
Tin mine near Boscarn
15.5 x 15.5” 39.5 x 39.5cm oil on paper
Farm outbuilding, low sunshine, Morvah
15 x 17” 38 x 43cm oil on paper
Towards Carn Galver from the B3306
20 x 28” 56 x 71cm oil on paper
Farm track outside Truthall
8.5 x 8” 21.5 x 20cm oil on paper
Church, Morvah
9 x 8.5” 23 x 21.5cm oil on paper
Atlantic winds blow, bracken rustles
9 x 9” 23 x 23cm oil on paper
Shivering tree, Rosewall Hill
31.5 x 31.5” 80 x 80cm oil on canvas
Gorse, near Truthwall
22 x 22” 56 x 56cm oil on paper
Cornish wall and bracken, mid January
22 x 22” 56 x 56cm oil on paper
Wind swept tree, near Morvah
22 x 22” 56 x 56cm oil on paper
Sun and wind, Gurnard’s Head
39 x 39” 99 x 99cm oil on canvas
Towards Zennor from Carn Galver
16 x 39” 40.5 x 99cm oil on canvas
From 31st March 2007 for two weeks
Opening times 10.30 a.m. till 4.30 p.m. Monday to Saturday
2.00 till 5.00 p.m. on Sundays
The Great Atlantic Map Works Gallery
West Place, St Just -in-Penwith, Cornwall TR19 7JB
Telephone: 01736 788911
www.greatatlantic.co.uk
e-mail: gallery@greatatlantic.co.uk
