Towns | Town Life | Buildings
Richard’s memory for architectural detail was extraordinary and many pictures celebrate great buildings but also the people living their lives around them. When he was 17 and the family moved from Bradford to Ilkley he missed the inner city and its busyness at first but soon came to love the quiet of small town or village and how it fitted into the land. Later, the experience of ports and docks excited him again, and the differences associated with this way of life for the inhabitants.
Portsmouth – from a drawing of 1942 (1975)
- 35.6h x 61w (cm)
Mischief Night (1975)
oil on canvas - 78.8h x 122w (cm)
Quayside, Weymouth (1975)
oil on board - 14h x 50.1w (cm)
Northern Town (1974)
oil on board - 12h x 52w (cm)
Buoy with Kite (1974)
oil on board - 39h x 76w (cm)
Lynton Mill (c1974)
- 50.8h x 76.2w (cm)
Landscape near Haworth (1973)
oil on panel - 51h x 61w (cm)
Staithes, Yorkshire (c1973)
oil on board - 17h x 24w (cm)
Tanker off Cowes (1972)
oil on panel - 33h x 35.5w (cm)
Cowes Week from Providence House (1972)
oil on panel - 76h x 122w (cm)
The Procession, Yorkshire (1970)
oil on board - 43h x 98w (cm)
Village by the Sea (1970)
oil on canvas - 53.5h x 68.5w (cm)
Wreck and Landslip, Yorkshire Coast (1968)
oil on canvas - 41h x 61w (cm)
Son Solennel (1967)
oil on canvas - 35.5h x 61w (cm)
Threadneedle Street 1855 (1966)
- 101.6h x 127w (cm)
From Haworth, Yorkshire (1965)
oil on canvas - 58.5h x 111.5w (cm)
Bolton (1965)
- 25.4h x 40.6w (cm)
Northern Town (1965)
oil on board - 25.5h x 33.3w (cm)
Farm in Swaledale (c1965)
oil on canvas - 49h x 57w (cm)
Junk - Sketch-0342 (1960s)
felt tip on paper - 18h x 23w (cm)