Richard Marshall Artist
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I live on the Fylde Coast in Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, UK, with my wife (Studio Manager) and two Italian Spinoni (Studio muses.) I studied my degree in Art and Teaching at Charlotte Mason College in the Lake District where the landscape undoubtedly influenced the way I use pattern in my work. I love fractural patterns and the natural patterns found in nature. Jazz musicians and scenes have become a big part of my life as my youngest son Morgan is a Jazz Musician. I enjoyed a brilliant two year Realism Portraiture Course run by National Portrait Award Winner, Louis Smith.
Edna & Bruno
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Lytham Arts Festival Brochures
During 2014, 2015 I ran the Lytham Arts Festival , ably assisted by my eldest son, Oscar. I co ordinated the Fylde Gallery for a number of years, organising and hanging exhibitions and I volunteered on the Tagging the Treasures Project cataloguing the Town’s art collection. I am an artist at heart. My parents brought me my own easel and set of paints when I was 7 and I went as ‘an artist’ to my first children' fancy dress party wearing a beret and smock shirt covered in paint, I felt fantastic!
My primary school reports reflect my teachers’ growing frustration as I dreamed my way through lessons and illustrated all my books, seeming to be awake only at times such as Spring and Christmas when we filled the school hall with paintings of daffodils or decorated classrooms with wall to ceiling Christmas scenes.
I remember my secondary school history teacher was less than impressed when marking everyone’s essays, to find in my textbook, a portrait of Martin Luther King. I felt sure that the expression I had captured on his face spoke more to his life, his struggles and his power than any words could and so I hadn’t felt the need to actually write anything.
My primary school reports reflect my teachers’ growing frustration as I dreamed my way through lessons and illustrated all my books, seeming to be awake only at times such as Spring and Christmas when we filled the school hall with paintings of daffodils or decorated classrooms with wall to ceiling Christmas scenes.
I remember my secondary school history teacher was less than impressed when marking everyone’s essays, to find in my textbook, a portrait of Martin Luther King. I felt sure that the expression I had captured on his face spoke more to his life, his struggles and his power than any words could and so I hadn’t felt the need to actually write anything.
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I always liked pop art and the hippy art culture that came with growing up in the 60’s and I’ve never grown out of my love of bright colours. I might not have been able to put into words during my younger years, that I was totally in awe of the paint, its smell, its texture, the arrays of colour and above all its ability to communicate, transform and transport…. A classroom into an Egyptian tomb, a school hall into a botanical garden. For me, art encapsulates a desire for beauty and the pursuit of dreams. Some may say I’m a dreamer! In my dreams I have exhibited in London, Paris and New York. I invite you to share another of my dreams and join me in making the world more beautiful, one wall at a time.
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