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Richard McWhannell

b.1952

Diploma of Fine Arts: IIam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury

Richard McWhannell - Hands On The Table, Renee II

Oil on canvas

Hands On Table, Renee Il

Throughout his art career, Richard McWhannell has shown us life in suspended animation. The sense of stillness and relaxed familiarity that characterises his portraiture has its origins in his early landscape painting. In the early 1970s he spent time in Nelson with Toss Woollaston who encouraged him to abandon realism and paint his personal response to the landscape.

Essay

Dimensions: 658x836mm

Richard McWhannell - Hey Mum

Oil on 4x5” film holder

Hey Mum

Richard McWhannell once said, “When I paint someone I simply concentrate really hard on how they look, and how the colours and tones are arranged, their proportions and disposition”. McWhannell is a realist painter. Realist painting has been described as “the challenge of dealing with what’s there”.

Essay

Dimensions: 115x195mm