As a founding member of the Riverside Artist Group he took part in a cultural exchange programme with the Moscow Union of Artists from 1989-92. In the mid 1990s he developed links with a number of artists in Berlin and developed further exchange exhibitions. Richard exhibits regularly in the UK in group and solo exhibitions. Richard has work in public and private collections across the world including the contemporary collections of the Pushkin Museum and the Tula Museum in Russia.

My work involves the creation of conceptual spaces. They are excavated from the picture plane through the manipulation of the plastic properties inherent in the materials. The juxtaposition of symbols and other points of reference enable me to give context to the work in a search for meaning.

In recent works I have introduced cuboids. Whilst these objects are the subject of the work their meaning may be ambiguous. The motivation of the series has been informed by an experience of perception. When I look, I cannot see everything. When considering the “wholes” that I can see they may be made up of more than one element, but they are never everything. When I look, the world is always fractured. In order to see I must tear a fragment from the world. That fragment then stands in for the “whole”. Maybe that tear has to be part of the new order. Maybe it is the frame, the aura of the object in its new form. Maybe it is a necessary part of the language? There is a clear link here to the Icons of the past; deities set on grounds of gold leaf and crowned with halos.
If you would like to see more work please contact Richard by email at Richard.day19@btinternet.com