Richard Freer MA BA (Hons.) PGCE
Richard Freer’s oeuvre is an intimate and personalized representation of natural and urban landscapes. Also exploring portraiture, the colour palette and forms are distinct, vibrant, and breath-taking.
Born in Leicester, UK in 1976, Richard’s natural-scrapes provide scope to a novel vision, almost bordering on complete abstraction. From a close-up view to a generic horizon rendition, Richard practices oil paintings, watercolours, and drawings
Graduated in Fine Art in 1999, Richard had attended the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. Later he received a master’s degree from De Montfort University in 2004. Impressionist in style, Richards oeuvre constructs a junction of departure from the same ideology. The landscapes appear real formally but digress in the realm of colours.
Richard’s attention to small details like a stroke of sunlight, or a small twig, or a reflection over sea marks his distinguishing and original style. And, most importantly, the consistency of the method pervades through his practice.
Intuitive and emotional, the responses to the natural surroundings in his paintings are solely dependent on the medium and moment. Notably, it unfolds a substantial relationship between the material and immaterial realms.
Richard regularly exhibits at international art exhibitions. At the same time, he also works as an art lecturer and adult education tutor. Exploring mundane objects, his artworks tend to become a part of a larger category of everyday aesthetics. Each region, individual, and moment is significant!
Gemma Colins – Leicestershire Life Magazine
‘ Drawing directly from nature’s ever changing palette Richard Freer is an artist intrigued by the colour effects, textures and sensory perceptions of nature’
Peggy Gibson – Modern Artists Gallery
‘ Richard Freer is a ‘specialist of light’ his paintings are energizing and require no added artificial light, just thriving on natural daylight and magically taking the viewer far away to a warm place.’
Selected exhibitions.
. Degree show, University of Hertfordshire – Hatfield. 1999.
. From the Edge (group show), Hanging Space – London, Islington. 1999.
. Paintings of Ireland, The Private Collector Gallery – Co. Cork, Ireland. 1999.
. Group show. The Lead Station – Manchester. 2000.
. Group show. The CUSP Gallery – Burghley house, Stamford. 2000
. From the edge – Whiteleys Atrium Gallery, Queensway, London. 2000
. Solo show, Originals Gallery – Stow on the Wold. 2001.
. Breathing space, Red gate gallery – London. 2001.
. Storage and Retrieval, University of Hertfordshire. 2001.
. Texture Through Light (Solo Show). Pinfold Gallery – Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria. 2002.
. Solo Show. Patchings Gallery – Nottingham. 2002.
. Group show Padstow Contemporary Art Gallery – Cornwall. 2003.
. Group show. Inspirations Contemporary Art – London. 2003.
. Group show. Focal Point Interiors Ltd. – Nottingham. 2003.
. Solo show, Ferrers Gallery – Staunton Harold, Leic 2003.
. Knighton Lane Artists Group 21st anniversary show – above hogshead pub, Leicester. 2003.
. MA Interim show, De Montfort University – Leicester 2003.
. Group show, Pinfold Gallery –Bowness on Windermere 2003.
. 2D, Group show, Brixton Art Gallery – London 2004.
. MA Fine Art Graduating show. De Montfort University – Leicester 2004.
. Group show, Artspaces – Devon 2004.
. Group show, Gallery One – Grayshott, Surrey 2005.
. Affordable Art Fair – London 2005.
. Group show. Modern Artists Gallery – Reading, Berkshire 2005.
. Affordable art fair – Bristol 2005.
. Solo show, Ferrers Gallery – Ashby De La Zouch 2005.
. Christmas show, Modern Artists Gallery – Reading, Berkshire 2005.
. Work exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair London with Gallery One 2006.
. Group show with Artspaces at Gallery 22 – Ashburton Plymouth 2006.
. Two man show, Modern Artists Gallery – Reading, Berkshire 2006.
. Work exhibited at the Edinburgh Art Fair with Gallery One 2006.
. Group show, Gallery One – Grayshott, Surrey 2007.
. Group show, Croft Wingates – Market Harborough, Leicestershire 2007.
. The Pavey Group, Torquay, Artspaces 2007
. Newcross Healthcare Solutions, South Devon, Artspaces 2007
. Cornwall Care Trust (Cedar Grange), Launceton, Cornwall, Artspaces 2007
. Group show, Croft Wingates Gallery. 2008
. Summer Show, Modern Artists Gallery. 2008
. Summer Show, Fractal Contemporary, Norwich. 2008
. Finalist in the Leicestershire Artist of the year competition – Ferrers Gallery, Ashby De La Zouch. 2009
. Master of light – Solo show, Fractal Contemporary, Norwich. 2009
. Christmas show – Fractal Contemporary, Norwich 2009
. Finalist Leicestershire Artist of the year exhibition – Ferrers Gallery, Ashby De La Zouch 2010
. Artwork published by Otterhouse publishing. 2013
. Group show, Novus Conceptum, Hannah Busch Gallery, Bellaire, USA. 2016
. Artwork selected by Artists and Illustrators magazine online – editors pics September 2017
. Artwork exhibited in Old House Gallery in Oakham, Leicestershire 2018
. Artwork shown on the home page of Asgard Arts website. 2018
. Artwork accepted into the Virtual Art Fair – Prize Exhibition. 2021