Sketches
Photographing and cataloguing Richard's sketches is a whole project in itself. The majority are part of the estate collection but a few are owned by private collectors.
The estate set are largely held in the form of sketchbooks and scrapbooks. Some sketch books are from a distinct period but others contain works of widely varying dates. At some point Richard raided his original sketchbooks, cut out key samples and pasted them together with some of his early drawings and watercolours into scrapbooks.
We are calling all the books "sketchbooks" for convenience and we have numbered them 1 to 22. There is also a set marked "0" for estate sketches not found in the books and for those in other collections.
You can view the all sketch books and albums archived so far using links at the bottom of the Explore the Catalogue page.
Sketch_09-03 Dymchurch (18th Apr 1974)
pencil on paper
Spring in Lepe (29th Apr 1973)
pencil on paper - 12.7h x 18w (cm)
Sketch_18-36 Lepe beach (c1973)
pencil on paper
Sketch_18-37 sails boats (c1973)
pencil on paper
Sketch_05-11 Refinery (c1973)
pen on paper
Evening, Lepe (9th Aug 1972)
pen on paper - 12.7h x 18w (cm)
This sketch led to to the painting 'Solent from Lepe' (1972). By this stage of his life Dad knew what information he needed in a sketch and what could be left out. And he was steadily able to leave more and more out and know what slight marks could trigger his memory.
Sketch_18-57 Providence House Cowes (3rd Jul 1972)
pen on paper