Robin Richmond

Robin Richmond RWS is a London-based British-American painter, writer, critic, teacher and illustrator, regularly exhibiting her art in the UK and France.

Career Born Nov 7, 1951 in Philadelphia, USA, Richmond grew up in Rome, before moving to London in 1969. Her early work is very figurative and based on direct observation.

After graduating from Chelsea School of Art with a BA (Fine Art) in 1974, where she studied with Ken Kiff, Prunella Clough, Gillian Ayres, and others, Richmond took an MA in Art History at Chelsea with Nicholas Wadley. She had her first one-woman show of paintings at the Ben Uri Gallery, London in 1976. Since then, she has exhibited regularly in London, New York, and at regional galleries in France, the US, and the UK. She held the post of visiting professor in art at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1985), and at Yale University (2002). Since 1976 she has exhibited regularly in London's West End in particular at the Mercury Gallery, and the Curwen Gallery

In 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Watercolour Society.

Awards and honours

Royal Watercolour Society : Arthur Wise Prize, 2023. Royal Watercolour Society: Associate Fellow, 2018, Fellow, 2022. Yale University: Fellow of Morse College, 2002 Jacob Mendelsohn Memorial Foundation Scholarship, 1982 Chelsea School of Art: BA (Fine Art) 1974, MA (Art History) 1975

Books Richmond, R. (2017). Living Landscape. London Curwen Gallery and the White Stork Press. ISBN 978-0-9552060-1-6. Richmond, R. (2006). The Storm Tree. London White Stork Press. Richmond, R. (1994). Frida Kahlo in Mexico. London and Petaluma Pomegranate Art Press. Richmond, R. (1992). Introducing Michelangelo. London Little Brown and Co. Richmond, R. (1992). Michelangelo and the Creation of the Sistine Chapel. London Barrie and Jenkins; New York Random House. Richmond, R. (1992). Animals in Art (The Story in a Picture). Nashville TE Ideals Publishing Richmond, R. (1992). Children in Art The Story in a Picture. Nashville TE Ideals Publishing

Selected Art Criticism by Robin Richmond

The Art Newspaper, 1998. The wings of a butterfly, Bonnard at the Tate Gallery March, p. 16, Issue 79. The Art Newspaper, 1998. The frog and the swallow reunited: Frida Kahlo in Copenhagen, Issue 78, February. The Art Newspaper, 1988. The playful Klee. Modern Painters, 1998. Berthe Morisot at the Musée Marmotton. Modern Painters, 1993. Finding the Vortex (Henri Gaudier-Brzeska), Autumn, pp. 80–82. Modern Painters, 1993. Thoughts about a Bird Bath (Henri Gaudier-Brzeska), September. Modern Painters, 1992. Close Encounters with Michelangelo, Summer, pp. 72–74.

Selected solo exhibitions 2024 Common Ground, Royal Watercolour Society Gallery, Whitcomb Street 2022 Mineral Histories, Coningsby Gallery, London 2019 Hesperides. Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway, Gloucestershire 2018 Caldera. Hotel de Ville, Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche, France 2017 Lodestone. Piers Feetham Gallery, London 2017 The Art Spaces, Cass Art, London 2016 Living Landscape. Curwen Gallery, London 2014 On Solitary Fields. Curwen Gallery, London 2012 The Still Point of the Turning World. Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London 2011 Morse College, Yale University, New Haven CT 2010 Sermons in Stones. Atrium Gallery, City University London 2010 Stones of the Sky. Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London 2008 Landscape Mysteries. Curwen and New Academy Gallery 2007 GlaxoSmithKline, London 2006 Watercolours from The Storm Tree, Curwen and New Academy Gallery 2006 Sacred Geographies. Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York City, USA 2005 Between the Real and the Ideal. City Atrium Gallery; City University, London 2005 Sacred Geographies. Curwen Gallery, London 2002 The Land, the Water, the Air, the City. Curwen and New Academy Gallery. 2000 Buried Images. Southern Exposure Gallery, South Florida. 1999 Yew Tree Gallery, Slad, Glos. 1998 Vessels. Curwen Gallery, London 1994 Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 1992 From Bone to Stone. Mercury Gallery, London 1992 Michelangelo Studies. Barbican Centre, London 1990 Mercury Gallery, London 1989 Mercury Gallery, London 1987 From the Distance. Boundary Gallery London 1980 Off Centre Gallery, London 1976 Ben Uri Gallery, London

Selected Group Exhibitions Richmond has contributed to regular group exhibitions, 1989–2024 at the Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery and Whitcomb Street Gallery, London; 1989–2016 at the Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London; and 1988–1993 at the Mercury Gallery, London.