Richard Kenton Webb | The Five Senses: 1 Sight

Artist Statment

Richard Kenton Webb is the 1st place winner of the Sunny Art Prize 2020. His work is about integrity, dignity, and hope. As the 1st place winner, he’s been granted a solo exhibition hosted at Sunny Art Centre. His work will be in the gallery from the 1st of October till the 31st of October 2021. 

For more information please visit the link below.
Hope in an Age of Anxiety | A conversation with John Milton’s Paradise Lost

For Richard Kenton Webb, drawing, painting, and printmaking are at the heart of his practice. He believes that painting is an intrinsic human language and will never disappear. For centuries, the artist’s imagination and the alchemy of materials have fused to create truly remarkable works. Words can fail us, but by engaging with materials, an artist can translate his or her inner world into a composition. The materials and our imaginations can fuse into visual poetry, communicating a hidden realm. In this respect, the artist makes the unseen visible.

Artist CV

Education
1983-86: Royal College of Art, London, MA (Painting)
1978-82: Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, BA Hons (Fine Art)
1977-78: Chelsea School of Art, London, Foundation

Group Exhibitions – selection
2019
Seer: European Painting and Drawing, Galleria Punto, Sokei Academy of Fine Art & Design, Tokyo,
Japan
Emergence: Art and the Incarnation of Space, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor, Texas, USA

2018
Tao Hua Tan Painters, Hefei Modern Art, Hefei, Anhui Province, China

2017
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? Kunstzaal, Onderder Toren, Hasselt, Belgium
Nine Painters, curated by Dr Richard Davey, Syson Gallery, Nottingham

2016
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

2015
Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, touring Japan

2014

The LARQ Effect, Gallery Ten, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

2013
Annual Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
The Language of Paint, two-person show with Iain Andrews, Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School,
Somerset

2012
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
BITE: Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London
The Open West, Gloucester Cathedral

2011
Royal West of England Autumn Show, Bristol
Insights – British Art Today, Museum Oberműnster, Ratisbon, Regensburg
The Nature of Landscape III, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

Solo Exhibitions – selection
2015
Landscape is a Conversation, LARQ Gallery, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia

2014
Still Life with Blackbirds, Corinium Museum, Cirencester
Thoughts in Search of a Thinker, LARQ Gallery, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia
New Work, Celia Lendis Contemporary, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire

2011

Orangeness, Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby

2000
The Colour of God, North Light Gallery, Huddersfield

1999
SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy

1994
Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London

1992
Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London

1989
Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London

1987
Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London

Collections
Arthur Anderson and Co, London
Stanhope Properties PLC, London
Unilever, London
Norkem, Knutsford
Museum Oberműnster, Regensburg, Germany

Publications
Webb, R. and J. Reardon, ‘Still Life with Blackbirds’, 2016
Webb, R., ‘Drawing as a Way of Thinking’, Richard Kenton Webb: The Landscape as Discourse, 2015
Davey, R., ‘Richard Kenton Webb’, Emergence: Art and the Incarnation of Space, 2019
Davey, R., ‘Richard Kenton Webb’, John Moores Painting Prize, 2016
Davey, R., ‘Figuring Light: Colour and the Intangible’, Colour Conversations, 2010
‘Peter Fuller’s Modern Painters’, Reflections on Modern Art, 1993