“CM : What are you trying to achieve in your paintings ?
RH: To reflect and offer back the light I see.
The experience of painting is like casting a mirror in a foundry - the heat is the inspiration which sometimes flashes intensely and more often is gradual and sustained over a long period. The dance of paint and surface is when ideas are in a molten state that I learnt to use when working on the monotype drawings.
I am aiming to polish and refine the surface of the ‘mirror ‘ and then the light which I never try to touch or control runs through the image of the tree or landscape shown. It is an act of invocation making a space for this spirit which is timeless in Nature. I experience and contact this spirit through the act of painting and observing the light.”
Alchemy of Light
a Messums Wiltshire Exhibition
4 December 2020 – 10 January 2021
For more information and availability of works, or to order a catalogue of the exhibition, please visit the Messums Wiltshire website or email info@messumswiltshire.com
Fonthill Lake Spring Afternoon Stillness Western Light (Oil on Panel) 24,5 x 30,5 cm
Fonthill Lake in Summer Rain (Oil on Linen) 68 x 61,5 cm
Trees and Reflections Fonthill Lake (Oil on Linen) 110.5 x 92.5 cm
Beech Forest Light III (Oil on Linen) 110,5 x 92 cm
Fonthill Lake Spring Evening (Oil on Panel) 21 x 39cm
Dinton Park - Two Oaks and Large Cloud (Oil on Panel) 19 x 27,5 cm
Fonthill Lake Winter Light (Oil on Linen)100 x 130 cm
Fonthill Lake Reflections II, Spring (Oil on Panel) 25 x 21 cm
The Great Oak East Knoyle Summer I (Oil on Panel)
36 x 30 cm
Fonthill Lake in Moonlight(Oil on Panel)
14 x 22 cm
Horse Hill Clouds and Descending Light (Oil on Panel) 53 x 60,5 cm
Fonthill Lake Spring from North End (Oil on Panel) 21,5 x 30 cm
Fonthill Lake Summer Storm and Stillness (Oil on Panel) 15 x 19,5 cm
Horse Hill from Woodlands Lane Summer Storm (Oil on Linen) 55 x 64,5 cm
Fonthill at Dusk, Winter
(Oil on Panel) 25 x 40 cm
The Great Oak - Edge of Autumn, Evening Light (Oil on Linen) 130 x 100 cm
Oak Tree in Rain - Fonthill (Oil on Panel) 33 x 31 cm
The Great Oak Summer II (Oil on Linen)
67 x 60,5 cm
Fonthill Lake Trees after Summer Rain Storm (Oil on Panel) 27 x 39 cm
Fonthill Lake Moonrise Behind Tree (Oil on Panel) 22,5 x 20 cm
Poplar Trees in Moonlight Fonthill Lake II (Oil on Panel) 21,5 x 29,5 cm
Oak Tree and Distant Fields Summer (Monotype Drawing)
The Great Oak Summer II (Monotype Drawing)
Beech Forest Summer Falling Light (Monotype Drawing)
Small Tree in Moonlight Fonthill (Monotype Drawing)