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Richard Cole was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1968. For over a decade he has been making his home in Vancouver, British Columbia. Richard studied oil painting at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Upon graduating in 1991, he made a decision to concentrate his practice in the realm of figurative realism. It was a vacation along the Oregon coast that turned Richard into what is decidedly a Northwest Coast landscape painter. Living in Vancouver, with its proximity to North shore forests and the world famous Pacific Rim National Park, Richard is never at a loss for subject matter. His paintings of these verdant cedar forests and wild coastal shores demonstrate his talent with the brush. His paintings are drenched with an atmosphere that is rendered through the delicate use of colour and light. His use of perspective commands the viewer to see what it is about the scene that caught his eye in the first place. Richard is represented by a number of international galleries and has been successfully showing this work for a number of years. “Painting has the ability to evoke an emotional response linking us to our natural environment. Identifying with a landscape painting comes from recognition of one’s natural world, where one lives or where one comes from. As an artist, I am focused on the sublime atmosphere of my surroundings more so than its details. My intention is to paint the intangible, the ever-changing light in the sky, the smell of the weather before a storm or how the wind moves the air around you. I am inspired by the wonders of that changing landscape.”- Richard Cole
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Copyright 2011. Ian Tan. |
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