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Keith Linwood Stover - Curator
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The Cyber Art Show
"Bringing the Museum to You"
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“I am inspired by my own travels. Places and people offer me new scenarios and feelings to pour into my painting. Europe, USA, Asia, all cultures suggest diversity, to which I want to be the eye witness. On the other hand, art is a lens that translates the outside world for me to understand it and connect to humanity.
My way to achieve this is either paint on location, or take notes and draw sketches when I travel. I strive to work by memory, which requires a deeper observation; I select only what really reso-nates within. If I use my own photos I draw an edited version of the subject. Then I decide my own color arrangement, according to my mood and pre-mix a limited number of colors on my palette. At this point the brushwork should be (or at least appear) the easiest and most effortless. In other words, the painting should paint itself!
Ultimately I want the viewer to get lost in a timeless story. It's my highest reward. And a bet every single time.”
Feature Artist Bio
Gallery #657
April 23, 2018
Twelve Pieces by Contemporary Artist
Richard Horner (Born 1948)
 Richard Horner - The Far Side of Trewavas Head |  Richard Horner - Porthleven, in Sharp Morning Light |  Richard Horner - Bathers at Rinsey |
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 Richard Horner - Mousehole |  Richard Horner - Two Small Boats in Porthleven (watercolor) |  Richard Horner - Cudden Point |
 Richard Horner - Porthcurno and Ped’n Vounder from Treen |  Richard Horner - Rockpool |  Richard Horner - Kynance Tidal Force |
 Richard Horner - Newlyn Harbour |  Richard Horner - Boats in the Mud 3 |  Richard Horner - Shadows on Rinsey Beach |
- Image of the Day -
"The Far Side of Trewavas Head"
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By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by British painter
Richard Horner (born 1948 in Wiltshire, United Kingdom).
Richard grew up in a household that was frequently filled with the smell of turps and linseed. His father was a keen painter and it was his dad’s influence that enabled him to get to grips, from an extremely young age, with the fundamentals of drawing and perspective. It’s probably in the genes, as Richard’s sister, Sally Williams, is a painter, and his daughter Emily also paints.
In terms of a career, Richard spent a number of years in the music business, struggling to make a living playing guitar in various bands, before finding alternative creative outlets, first running a joinery business, and later a business designing and making furniture and bespoke kitchens. Over the years, Richard succeeded in forging an unerring belief in his ability to master the various trades and skills that he set his mind to. That self-belief has served him well, particularly in compensating for the fact that he has received very little in the way of formal training!
Although he never lost touch with his early painting and drawing skills, it wasn’t till he sold the furniture business in 2014, and moved to Cornwall, that he began to make a serious effort to develop as a painter. Having created the space to paint, it seems to have taken over as the main activity in his life.
Perhaps because he spent some difficult years in his thirties and forties in analysis, exploring the dynamics of the psyche, he has very little interest in creating art that is an expression of the unconscious and is much more comfortable with attempting to portray vistas and patterns of light that have in some way touched or moved him.
Consequently he spends a lot of time on the cliffs using his camera as a recording device and most of his painting is done back in the studio, trying to bring that impression to life. His earlier works were mostly in watercolour, but in the last couple of years he has painted almost exclusively in oil paint.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“I am an unashamedly fairweather painter. For me, it’s all about sunlight and how it warms and lubricates the landscape, and at the same time lights up our life. I feel blessed to be living on the Cornish coast where the interplay of the elements delivers dramatic inspiration in bucketloads.
Although I enjoy watercolour for its immediacy and its potential to portray sublime luminosity, I find the process I am developing with oils, gradually allowing an image to emerge from the primed canvas, is a lot more sculptural and seems to satisfy a deeper part of my character. It is also a lot closer to the way I draw - slowly honing in towards detail.”
