Two Mangosteen

Here below is an image of one of the smaller oils that will feature in my coming solo show in Paris.
The entire exhibit entitled 'Raw/Cooked: Last of the Summer Mackerel' has it's pictorial narrative based around compositions which includes foods.

Private Collection, Switzerland.

Raw/Cooked: Last of the Summer Mackerel

My first Solo Exhibit in Paris opens this day fortnight. 
'Last of the Summer Mackerel', at Galerie La Cornue. 
54 rue de Bourgogne, 75007, Paris. 
Don't forget to tell your friends!

Museum of Realist Art, Boston

Recently I was informed that my work has been included in The Museum of Realist Art, Boston. This curatorial collection of  realist painting has been build over time since 2011. The founders are currently looking for a permanent space in Boston. Until then the collection is available online.
www.museumofrealistart.org

All work and no play

Preparation for my coming solo exhibit in Paris is nearly complete.
Of course there will be some last minute things like crating the works for transport, but all the pieces are framed and gathered bar one!
I will post more information on this first exhibit of my work in Paris soon.

My attention the past number of days has been to return to work on pieces for my commissioned project for SEPIL. I'm really pushing ahead with this work now and feeling more and more comfortable with the remaining time. Its good to have a deadline. My works always more concentrated and focused with one.

You know the proverb 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy' - well Thank God I got to let loose on that break in Amsterdam :).

Here is a shot of me with a piece in process that I have abandoned or put aside, at least for a little while.

Rijks Museum

I'm back at work in my studio now but on Thursday last I had the chance to spend a day at the Rijks Museum in the heart of Amsterdam's Museum quarter. The Rijks has just undergone a ten year refurbishment and renovation and just opened up fully again in 2013.

The museum is divided up chiefly into four sections.
'Special Collections', on the ground floor which includes works created from 1100 through to 1600 as well as an incredible collection of Asian antiquities which are housed in a special pavilion. 1700 to 1900 on floor one where I was particularly taken by a Goya self portrait. Then the second floor with its great hall and gallery of honour containing works from the 1600-1700 namely the Night Watch by Rembrandt and little gems by Vermeer like Milkmaid and Little Street.

I never made it to the 1900-2000 on the third floor but I suppose they will all be waiting for my return to Amsterdam which won't come quickly enough.

Rembrandt's Bed

Four days and three nights in Amsterdam was never enough. What was I thinking?!
Myself and Boo arrived into the Netherlands mid week. It was Boo's first time on Dutch soil.

Our first trip into the city was to visit Rembrandt Van Rijn's house.
Here is an image of his bed in which he slept half upright, the belief being at the time that if you slept lying down you could die from a rush of to much blood to the head!

A Little Audio/Visual Treat

Just finished collaging this little audio visual treat a couple of days ago.

Special thanks to John Des Marais for his incredible generosity in composing the accompanying music. These two musical arrangements entitled ' Color Wheels ' were composed especially for the launch night of my 4th New York City solo show which opened at O'Sullivan Antiques in spring of this year.

I was fortunate enough to have met John Des Marais some years ago in New York. John is a Tenor and Composer who works composing compositions for Film and TV as well as being one of the lead singers and long time member of the St. Patrick Cathedral Choir in New York City.

Hope you enjoy watching and listening to this little collage of recent still life paintings.

Richard Hearns - The Artist's Shelf from Richard Hearns on Vimeo.

Impossible Complexities - SEPIL Commission 013

In the image below you can see me working out an incredibly complex drawing for a painting which will illustrate a section of the terminal processing facility at the Corrib Gas Project.

Below that again is an image of the second stage process I have implemented in the working out of this piece. Here I have washed in various colours which will serve me in illustrating and establishing the overall colour relationship of this complex composition.