Collection: Richard K. Blades

Richard was born in 1978 and raised on the border of Cambridgeshire and
Lincolnshire. His passion for painting began whilst living in Cornwall in his mid
twenties. Having grown up in East Anglia, much of his work is based on and
inspired by the coast, skies and landscapes of the area. Along with the
landscape, he is also a still life painter, fascinated by the quiet corners of
studios and how light falls upon objects and plants.

Richard, who lives and works in North Norfolk, says of his work

“I am primarily an expressive landscape painter working in the English
Romantic tradition. I feel a deep connection to the landscape and the artists who also chose the sky, sea and land as their source of inspiration. Turner, Constable, Seago,
Daubigney and Courbet are personal favourites of mine. The gaps of
generations and hundreds of years matter little. Regardless of what has
changed in this world, the technological advancements and societal shifts, the
landscape is always there, as something eternal, the ever-changing muse,
always present, yet never the same. ”