Bonfires | Flames | Smoke
A complex subject! Fire often signifies the spiritual and the flame of creativity for Richard, but conversely it represents destruction (War) and pollution (Industry) as well as joy and celebration with fireworks and candles, and even these can be fraught with a sense of danger.
The fires or plumes of smoke are often clearly visible in the paintings, but others are just specks of light or black smudges in the distance. You sometimes have to work quite hard to find them, but when you do, you realise that they are not just incidental.
HMS 'Revenge' Leaving Harbour (1942)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 127w (cm)
Raid on Vaagso, Norway, 26 - 27 December 1941 (1941)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 127w (cm)
Dunkirk Beaches, May 1940 (1941)
oil on canvas - 101.8h x 152.5w (cm)
Attack on a Convoy Seen from the Air (1941)
oil on canvas - 76h x 101.4w (cm)
Night Attack Over Southampton Water (1941)
oil on ? - 33h x 60.7w (cm)
A Destroyer Escort in Attack (1941)
oil on canvas - 50.5h x 101.5w (cm)
The Boats Were Machine-Gunned (1941)
oil on canvas - 76.6h x 101.6w (cm)
Robin Hood's Bay in Wartime (1940)
oil on canvas - 63.5h x 76.2w (cm)
Dunkirk Beaches (1940)
oil on cardboard - 22.8h x 45.7w (cm)
December, Work Suspended (1940)
oil on canvas - 101.6h x 127w (cm)
Barrage Balloons (1940)
oil on panel - 21.2h x 62.5w (cm)
Dunkirk Beach, 1940 (1940)
oil on board - 28h x 50.8w (cm)
Air Fight over Portland (1940)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 101.9w (cm)
Withdrawal from Dunkirk, June 1940 (1940)
oil on canvas - 76.2h x 101.6w (cm)
Man With a Hawk (1939)
oil on canvas on paper or board - 31.5h x 27w (cm)
Antwerp (1939)
oil on canvas - 101.6h x 127w (cm)
Continental Port (1939)
oil on canvas - 101.5h x 127w (cm)
Dunkirk (1939)
oil on canvas - 51h x 61w (cm)
Clifford's Tower, York (1939)
oil on canvas - 51.75h x 61w (cm)
The Galilee (1938)
oil on canvas - 40.6h x 61w (cm)