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Richard Spare

Exhibiting at the

2019 RA Summer Exhibition

The Showmen

Artist & Master

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This is the joy of being

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Richard's New Work

Marvellous Spatuletail - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Marvellous Spatuletail

£230
The Showmen - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

The Showmen

Purple Star - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Purple Star

£460
Long-Eared Owl - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Long-Eared Owl

£230
Autumn Blue Tit - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Autumn Blue Tit

£230
Dancing Hearts - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Dancing Hearts

£460
Friendship - Limited Edition etching, drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Friendship

£260
Love Song - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Love Song

£460
Bullfinch in the Magnolia Tree

Bullfinch in the Magnolia Tree

£1,000
Bullfinch and Magnolia Buds

Bullfinch and Magnolia Buds

£900
Bullfinch and Magnolia Buds II

Bullfinch and Magnolia Buds II

£900
Linnet - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Linnet

£230
Sparrow - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Sparrow

£230
Octopus Dance - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Octopus Dance

£230
Japanese White Eye - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Japanese White Eye

£280
The Secret - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare
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The Secret

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Long Tailed Tit - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Long Tailed Tit

£230
Splish Splash - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Splish Splash

£230
Deep Dive - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Deep Dive

£230
Strawberry Tortoise - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Strawberry Tortoise

£230
Diving Gannets - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Diving Gannets

£230
Redwing - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Redwing

£230
Snow Dance - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Snow Dance

£230
Evening of the Egret - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Evening of the Egret

£230
Soaring Gannets - Limited Edition drypoint and watercolour fine art print by artist Richard Spare

Soaring Gannets

£230
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Bullfinch in the Magnolia Tree

Richard Spare

Bullfinch in the Magnolia Tree

£1,000

2019
Oil on board
Image Size: 183 x 150mm
Unique Piece

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Collectively, Richard Spare’s colourful images are a party of drypoints. It is the artist’s intention that his audience be immersed in the joy and happiness that his pictures evoke. The artist simply wants to capture an uplifting emotion utilizing floral arrangement, holiday harmony and other design motifs that reflect the joy of being.

Spare’s drypoints are poetic graphic statements that instantly communicate the beauty of time and place and nature. Familiarity doesn’t diminish this beauty … these images are layered in a subtle manner giving the viewer the desire to gaze into each picture to absorb a calming harmony and to be transported to another place.

It first appears that Richard Spare’s chosen medium of hand coloured aggressive drypoint is best suited to organic subject matter such as his flowers, birds and animals but he has employed it successfully in his portrayal of the sun drenched summer sea-side habour villages of southern England and France.

Richard Spare’s drypoints take us to another place. In the same way that centuries earlier Orientalism took most of its audience to another world, so Richard Spare takes us on holidays to the sun drenched summerness of Cornish fishing villages or the south of France … and in it’s simplest form, one can extract warmth and joy from the colourful richness of his birds and floral arrangements. This is the joy of being Richard Spare.

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