| RICHARD HERMAN |
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Richard Herman was born in London, England, on January 11th, 1965, and immigrated to Canada in 1967.
His childhood was spent in rural Ontario before moving to Toronto in his early teens. He left home and
school at the age of 16 following the death of his father, and at this point began to paint, resolving to make
art his life's work.
Without formal training, learning to paint was a process of trial and error rooted in a love of European art
history. These first efforts were influenced in both technique and style by the crisp form and transparent
colour of early Flemish and German painters such as Van Eyck and Breugel
In his late twenties Richard underwent a change in perspective that focused on the transience of the world.
Seeking to depict a world that arises and passes away he began experimenting with a wet-on-wet
technique that drew inspiration from the Chinese and Japanese traditions of painting and calligraphy. The
work that came out of this approach shows a flowing environment of clouds, geology and watercourses.
The lessons of these two periods came together in what would become his established landscape style,
and are now serving as a point of departure into the world of symbolic narrative.
Solo Exhibitions....
2007 - "Floating World" PARTS GALLERY Toronto
2007 - "New Sublime", Art Interiors Toronto
2006 - "The Promised Land", Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton
2005 - New works, Art Interiors, Toronto
2004 - Landscapes from Memory, Parts Gallery, Toronto
2002 - New Landscapes and Skyscapes, Art Interiors, Toronto
Two-Person Exhibitions...
1997 - Blue Space, 80 Spadina, Toronto
Group Exhibitions....
2007 - Touching Reality, The Elliot Louis Gallery, Vancouver
2005 - Three Visions of Land and Sky, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton Alberta
2003 - Natural Tendencies, Holland & Holland, New York, NY
1996 - Metro Convention Center Visitor's Assoc. Queens Quay Terminal, Toronto
1988 - International Miniature Show Del Bello Gallery, Toronto
Corporate Collections...
Design For Living Television
The Four Seasons Hotel
The Windsor Arms Hotel and Residence,Toronto
The Tridel Corporation
Maple Leaf Foods
Gamma Dynacare Laboratories
Media and Bibilography...
Style at home
Canadian House and Home
The National Post
"The spirit in the sky", The Edmonton Journal May 05
"Creations to meet his audience half way" The Edmonton Journal october 06
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