Richard Sunderland Art

Work in Progress

Work in Progress - Surface and Light - Light being white and empty space, Surface is about texture and layers of history. The process has been organic with references to architecture and landscape, one or two pieces growing from another. The first paintings evolved from a squeegee drawing in black and white paint. This went through a series of unfortunate stages before being attached to a stretcher on another canvas. Black Gate and Blue Stripes where cropped from the canvas, which was repaired with the intent of seeing if more could be generated. Eventually after weeks of the surface was interesting but the composition just wasn't, salvaging one piece Light Blue with Red and Yellow. The canvas was deconstructed and re stretched, primed and then collaged a drawing with the remnants applied to the new canvas. See the outcomes so far. Walking to Devil's Point pieces lead to Firestone and a new WIP collage piece.

Drawing and painting natural forms is hard!

Roborough Down
Gorse, Heather and Hawthorn a flat part of the Mannamead Ridge that links Dartmoor to Plymouth. The project start in 2019 Early attempts at drawing and capturing the experience and sense of the place.
The last eight images are Yelverton Down Yellow Gorse and Hawthorn, mix media, collage, homemade watercolours, acrylic and graphite on Fabriano paper 1.5 x 10m Roll.

Drawing with anything trying to find a dialogue between the combinations of tools, hand and media and personal connections to the place. Responding to experiences, homemade and found stimuli. Trying to not worry, if they are revealing and exposing.

No 8 Unfinished.

Work on canvas or board mainly in acrylic. The first two are Fresco Secco using watercolour and inks on a plaster based ground.

Acrylic Collages
Approx 14 x 20 cm

Hyde Park Road Series
Signs of Life, Push, Echos of Clive's House, Thought Bubble, Search into Life, ETC, Stagger.
An on going observational study of Hyde Park Road, Plymouth, Light, Reflections, Contrasts, Time of the Year.
Allworks are in acrylic on canvas with collaged elements.
New pieces Reflections II All acrylic on canvas some using acrylic collage elements. Details and different angles of view are included.
Experimenting with image transfers onto clear acrylic and layering collage into each work like a time capsule.