New York Skyline 2010 - 40" - 60"
Arm Stretch 2010 - 30" - 40"
Riding the Tube 2009 - 24" - 30"
Ocean Sunset 2010 - 30" - 40"
Playing Piano 2011 - 40" - 30"
Street Soccer 2010 - 36" - 48"
Switch 2010 - 30" - 40"
Exhibition of fine art
"As an artist I am very happy to be represented by the Agora Gallery, they have been fantastic regarding the up and coming exhibition "United in Art". I will be attending the private view and opening, looking forward to the people I might meet and other artists who are also participating in the exhibition.
I am spending two months in New York over June and July and hope to do a lot of on location painting around the city, I have never been to the city before as view it as a great opportunity to get a feel for the place and capture my emotions regarding the city and its people on canvas."
Richard Stuttle
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British painter Richard Stuttle isolates the intense, fleeting beauty of extreme sports in superbly crisp, spectacular and often-vertiginous oil compositions. From pristine slopes in the French Alps, where he spends winters painting and snowboarding, to gritty city streets where he follows skateboarders and parkour practitioners, Stuttle alternates between nearly photographic hyperrealism and a vividly lit and stylized aesthetic evocative of Expressionist woodblock prints. Both approaches suggest passionate reverence for athletes. When meticulously detailed, his paintings pay tribute to the perfected physical and mental conditioning of contemporary athletes in a manner similar to classical Greek sculpture. In the comparatively more dramatic urban scenes, the silhouetted sportsmen become mysterious creatures more akin to superheroes.
In both cases, Stuttle foregrounds the sublime rush of sports like skiing and surfing, transferring their surge of adrenaline to gripping tableaux. Figures are perfectly composed yet simultaneously on the verge of losing control. Stuttle focuses our attention on his sharply rendered athletes, beacons of poise amidst blurred landscapes tumbling off into the distance.
Statement by Agora Gallery New York, USA.
"If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it"
"Light is therefore colour"
JMW Turner 1775 - 1851
"Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God"
"Without atmosphere a painting is nothing"
Rembrandt Van Rign
1606 - 1669
"A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs."
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519