bethrichardsonart

Prizes, Palettes and Autumn Shows Latest News I hope this email finds you well. I'm still buzzing from last weekends RWA opening in Bristol and have returned giddy from new connections ,swirling colours and ideas for my next collection. I was delighted that my painting entitled 'Painting' was awarded The Evolver Feature Prize and sold on the first night. The painting is centre stage at the current RWA Bristol Annual Open exhibition and has been getting lots of attention. The show is a...

Clothes carpet the floor, tools spill out of cupboards still waiting for their doors, laundry gets so deep I've wanted to drive in the mini digger. Living in a busy house hold of children, cats and ongoing major Grade 2 listed house renovations can feel chaotic. There's moths in my jumpers so the freezer is full of clothes instead of ice cream. Sunshine brings children to the pond and trails of swamp weed follow them up to the bath and back to the pond again in a seemingly endless cycle. The...

Chairs.... Back in my student days, living in a shared house in the Forest of Dean, there was a chair in the kitchen out of place and unused. It sat there alone with it's paisley cushion seat and upright back. One day the sun poured through the blinds and slitted sunshine laid across its fabric seat. It's beauty struck me. In my first year at Cheltenham Uni, doing a Fine Art Painting and Drawing degree, I took this chair as my subject and observed it in the changing light. Under the spot...