Photograph of Artist RICHARD WHINCOP
RICHARD WHINCOP
Chichester, West Sussex - United Kingdom



Original Artworks (4)

Richard Whincop; Theres No Place Like Home, 2011, Original Painting Oil, 69 x 115 cm.
Richard Whincop
Original Oil Painting, 2011
69 x 115 cm (27.2 x 45.3 inches)
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Richard Whincop; Dialogue, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 50 x 50 cm. Artwork description: 241  The enormous
Richard Whincop
Original Oil Painting, 2007
50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 inches)
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Richard Whincop; Holy Family, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 58 x 58 cm. Artwork description: 241  The Peasant girl suckling a child by Aime Jules Dalou ( c. 1863) is one of two versions in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She seems to have the quality of a Madonna, and the man who looks on inadvertently takes on the role of Joseph in ...
Richard Whincop
Original Oil Painting, 2007
58 x 58 cm (22.8 x 22.8 inches)
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Richard Whincop; First Impressions, 2007, Original Painting Oil, 28 x 40 cm. Artwork description: 241  Monet painted his Dejeuner sur l'herbe in 1866, his answer to Manet's famous work of the same name. Radically based on outdoor studies of models, and presenting a scene in which there was no significant narrative, instead it simply conveyed an instant impression of leaves ...
Richard Whincop
Original Oil Painting, 2007
28 x 40 cm (11.0 x 15.7 inches)
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Artist Statement

My recent work looks at what happens when people come face to face with the art and architecture of the past.

Painted in a traditional style, it allows me to address contemporary issues about our personal and collective relationship not just to the art of the past, but to the past itself, the soil from which we have grown. It raises questions about the place of traditional art and architecture in contemporary society, through the way that we react and respond to it, and the way that art is presented in museums and galleries.

This theme also allows me to playfully blur the distinctions between art and reality. My compositions often create a deliberately restricted view of the figures and settings, making them ambiguous or even unidentifiable. They can seem to depict an imaginary realm in which people, artworks and architecture become elements in a dream, the indefinable mood compounded by an atmospheric use of light and colour.

I do not try to put across any one particular viewpoint in my paintings; they are presented in an open-ended way, leaving viewers to interpret them in their own fashion. At times there is an element of irony or humour; at others there can be seem to be a mysterious moment when distinctions between past and present become blurred, when each somehow seems to render the other more complete.



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