Inspiration :: 1 June 2022 Focus on Process In this post, I reflect on the components leading to MIND MEANDERING, which lies within the inner core of my Venn diagram - “The Middle Bit”
Inspiration :: 1 March 2022 IKIGAI – TRUE PURPOSE – A Reason for Being In recent years, I have developed a keen interest in the practice of IKIGAI - a pathway towards achieving good health and longevity, through purpose and meaning. I hope to inspire by sharing the many parallels between IKIGAI and the PIVOTALS of my journey in pursuit of mastery.
Inspiration :: 27 April 2020 Doing Nothing Can Be A Life Changer Social researcher and author Hugh Mackay writes of the current rare opportunity we have all been given, to slow the pace, to allow time to drift and dream . . . “Busyness is like a contagious disease; an epidemic. One of its symptoms is the way we now greet each other: revved-up by our busyness […]
Inspiration :: 1 April 2020 Art of Omission by Anna Johnson | the Sydney Morning Herald | March 21-22, 2020 Tossing aside my camera, I rediscovered the joy of “slow looking”. A year ago, I made an art pilgrimage to see the CC Land Exhibition – Bonnard at The Tate Modern in London. Two days shy of the show’s close, I turned up at the museum at night with just two hours to look at […]
Collaboration :: 23 July 2019 Views From The Muse | Commentary from Model Katy Woods With a decade of experience in contemporary dance and choreography to compliment her role as a professional artists’ model, Katy Woods brings an additional dynamic to my theme and practice. I first met and drew Katy at a group life drawing session back in 2017. Since that time, we have worked together in collaboration on […]
Mastery :: 21 November 2018 Optical Intimacy – Investigations with Pattern | November 2018 During the past year I have become increasingly interested in exploring aspects of pattern making, as a separate exercise to those featured in the majority of my pictures. Back in my days at the Central School of Art, between 1970 and 1973, a number of my fellow students were working on very large canvases, and […]
Inspiration :: 1 August 2018 Visiting The Queensland Art Gallery A private viewing of prints by Kitagawa Utamaro A private viewing of any piece of art in the Permanent Collection of the Queensland Art Gallery is only an email request away, and is available to anyone. After all, each piece belongs to the State, and is therefore ours to enjoy . . . ! From […]
Collaboration :: 8 August 2017 The view from model Frances Balan I began my journey as a professional model to re-engage in the art scene after focussing on music for most of my university years. I met Rich through a life model agency in 2012, and after modelling for many student art classes, I had a desire to work with practicing artists. Rich gave me a […]
Mastery :: 28 March 2017 Process, Creative Sparks and The Science of Art By Glen Harvey, former client and friend I’ve known Rich since the early 1990s and, when we both took a step back from the corporate world in 2010, began to regularly catch up to share where fate was taking us. From then to this day I have been amazed by the dedication, progress and resilience […]
Mastery :: 17 March 2017 Origin of “The Answer Is The Death Of The Question” On a number of occasions in recent times, I have been asked the origin of the statement: “The answer is the death of the question”, which is featured at the start and close of the video. The source is a piece written by the renowned social researcher, psychologist, author and social commentator Hugh Mackay. I felt compelled […]
Exhibition :: 1 January 2017 Pop In For The First Pop Up Series for 2017 – 11th to 12th February PRESENTED BY THE RED HILL GALLERY, THE FIRST POP UP SERIES FOR RWALLENARTWORKS COMMENCES ON THE 11TH FEBRUARY. Join me for a chat and take a look at some “work in process”, over the weekend of Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th February 2017 between 10am-4pm. I will also be working with my model from 11am-1pm on […]
Mastery :: 10 November 2016 Familiarity and Surprise from Andrew Baldwin – Emeritus Professor & Art Collector Andrew and I are close friends, a friendship that dates back to our early teens. He is based in the UK, has been a collector for many years, and has taken a keen interest in my work since my days at the Central St. Martins School of Art back in the mid 1970s. “As a […]
Mastery :: 2 November 2016 Greville Patterson on Time and Intimism I first met Grev shortly after arriving in Australia during the spring of 1982. Grev is an outstanding creative thinker and communicator – a most gifted writer, composer, musician, poet and painter. In more recent years, we have become good mates, and catch up on a regular basis. “For me, Rich’s pictures with their highly […]
Mastery :: 28 September 2016 My Visual Perspective I continue to be fascinated by grids, geometric, organic and contoured pattern making. These elements are featured in every picture that I produce. I’m absorbed by surface and texture, and at galleries I get up close and examine the works from the distance from which they were produced. I love to slowly scan the surface […]
