the pleasure, passion,power and panache of painting

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top left “Lee”
top right
‘head of a girl’
bottom left:
“Amy” Pastel and Charcoal
drawing.
bottom right:
“head of Adam”
Once again, after all the serious art discussion, we decided it was a good idea to have a social chat in the same pub that we
visited the first time I had come to visit Richards studio. It turned out to be a very good social hour or two for all. Richard
has returned recently to creating some excllent charcoal studies. A very informative social hour or so, which turned out to
be enlightening and filled in some of the personal parts of Richards life, some new to me new and some that were not so
new. It was clear to that, he had began to mature as a painter and grow as a person. A natural process of life that seems to
be always linked to a new partner, who not only understands eccentricities, but also caring about each other does improve
ones own understanding of self through acts of unselfishness, I think.
Richard Fitton is a very fine artist and it’s my belief that given some space and time he will continue to drive himself
to improve his art to greater levels of artistic uniqueness, no matter how much others may shower him with praise or
compliments at the present time. His art can only be measured by his own yardstick and it’s a measure of ‘the self’ that
he makes often. He is critical of his own work as much as his proud of many of the pieces he has already made to date. I
personally, find that a good position to adopt and do feel that looking at ones work, from many different angles, is better
than being blinded by the amount of paintings that is sold at an exhibition. My own favourite artists motto is: Money
always follows good Art and it should never be the other way round.”
I really do look forward to viewing Richards work again, perhaps next time in an exhibition where the space is big enough
to accommodate his future large scaled work and do it the justice and respect, that I am absolutely sure, it will justly
deserved.
Richard Fitton - “Looking at painting from another angle, and more than once...”
written by Denis Taylor (October 2017 to January 2018)