Richard Bostock Fine Art

Home schooling is working better, under close supervision.

Home schooling is working better under close supervision.

Let’s not forget amidst our woes that the most wonderful awakening of our world is beginning. Spring in Tixall - 122cm x 91cm- Acrylic on Canvas

It’s always better if you can see from more than one perspective at the same time. With David Hockney iPad drawings at Salts Mill near Leeds this afternoon.

Happy International Women’s Day ................................................... matters

Happiness in this morning’s sunshine

The first blossom of Spring. Sometimes the things that cost us nothing can be more precious than anything we can imagine.

Work in progress in dramatic fleeting light today (with a smattering of hail). A happy sign of the Summer to come. 😁

Church from Cage Hill - 90cm x 90cm - oil on canvas - Unchanged for generations, this view of the 12th Century Church of St John the Baptist in Stowe-by-Chartley deliberately echoes the emotional undertones of ‘The Church at Auvers’ in the Musee D’Orsay. I am so grateful to the wonderful Evans family for commissioning this painting.

My heart and soul is in my work and it can be quite moving to observe the impression when a painting is seen for the first time. Although it can be hard to wave goodbye to another little piece of myself, there is much to look forward to that has yet to be seen! 😁

Sunset over Cannock Chase - 80cm x 20cm acrylic on canvas.

Ingestre Hall - The Ancestral home of the Earls of Shrewsbury since the 17th Century- with thanks to Ed Chetwynd-Talbot for commissioning this painting of his family home which survives as the only children’s residential arts centre in the country, where Julie Walters and Frank Skinner first experienced the arts. The legacy of this magnificent house continues.

Sunlight at Colwich Primary School - 80cm x 20cm study - acrylic on canvas - My colour is a visual representation of the feelings I have for the subjects I paint.

Wasn’t it stunning light today? Acrylic paint is a fantastic way to express yourself swiftly in changing light when used thinly with a big brush. I draw much inspiration from studying the subtle changes in light and shadow on the landscape. Being out there is really the only way to do it (even if I do need to order some thermals😂)