Storm II
Mixed media on paper
59x87cm
An Gairadh - Isle of Mull
Mixed media on paper
48x67cm
Pines - Loch Uisg, Isle of Mull
Mixed media on paper
48x53.5cm
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Storm I
Mixed media on canvas
30x91cm
Rocks and Trees - Laggan Bay
Mixed media on paper
40.5x51cm
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Richard Kidd 1952 - 2008
Painter & Printmaker
Richard Kidd was a Newcastle-based artist. Born and brought up in the region, he won a Rome Scholarship immediately following his graduation from Newcastle University. After spending time in Italy he returned to London, where he exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery and was taken up by the Rowan Gallery in London. He lived and worked in both California and New York, assisted by a Harkness Fellowship.
He returned to Newcastle in 2001, where he lived and worked until his untimely death in 2008.
Public Collections include:
Arts council of England, North East
British Council
Belfast Museum
Central Square, Newcastle
Clare College, Cambridge
Coopers Lybrand, London
Directors Institute, London
Glasgow University
Law Courts, Birmingham
Leicestershire Education Authority
MOMA Rio de Janeiro
MOMA San Francisco
MOMA Zurich
Northumbria University
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Warwick University
Represented at the Miami Art Fair 2005
Artist’s Statement
"My paintings are about remote, mountainous landscapes because that’s where I feel most at home. I make them in ways which push my control of materials to the limit because that feels like “being there”.
Georges Braque once said, “Making a painting is like taking a journey”. This seems to me to be a fitting comparison. Sometimes you know where you’re going. The route is planned. Other times you get lost, perhaps deliberately, and end up somewhere totally unexpected. Both approaches are equally valid. The one quality, common to both, which distinguishes the successful painting from the failure is ‘a sense of place’.
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