Richard Nott 'Bone Skin Spirit'

Richard Nott
Massimo Angei

Blood Skin Bone

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Richard Nott’s paintings are unique. There
are no oil or acrylic paints in his studio, he
works with industrial materials, bitumen,
emulsions and varnishes, building them
up layer upon layer, often over intimately
drawn or gouged grids, lines or marks, into
a textural palimpsest, before courageously
scraping or burning them back to reveal
what lies underneath. Viewing Richard
Nott’s artwork is witnessing a protracted
collision of creative and destructive
processes. An evolution of matter, exposed,
concealed, exposed, concealed, continuously.
His paintings become the consequence of
years spent where Nott’s history merges
with the history of the elements used. He
has little interest in illusionistic ‘texture’,
the work must be its own entity, have its
own story and be its own statement. His
objective is to create an organic object
that evolves like a living thing with truth
and imperfection. His process of working
allows for a contemplation of a cycle of
existence to become imbued in to the work.
Not a beginning with an end but a journey
where genesis leads to dissolution, and on
once again to genesis. Something eternal akin
to alchemy.
Richard Nott is a British artist born in
1963. He currently lives and works in west
Cornwall. Nott gained his Fine Art degree at
Lancashire Polytechnic and his MA in fine
art at Reading University. In 1985 he worked
as an assistant to Andy Goldsworthy on
site-specific sculptures in the Lake District.
He was gallery assistant at the Royal
Academy from 1986-7 and at Oldham Art
Gallery from 1991-2. He won the South West
Arts Visual Arts and Photography Award
in 1994. He gained a residency at the
12th International Weeks of Painting in
Slovenia. Exhibitions have been extensive
and international notable included numerous
solo exhibitions at Anima Mundi over a long
and fruitful working relationship, ‘Art Now
Cornwall’ at the Tate St Ives and Chashama,
Avenue of the America’s, NYC.
Reliquus 1, mixed media on floating panel, 60 x 60 cm
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Reliquus 2, mixed media on floating panel, 60 x 60 cm
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Matrix 1, mixed media on floating panel, 100 x 100 cm

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Matrix 2, mixed media on floating panel, 60 x 60 cm
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Matrix 3, mixed media on floating panel, 100 x 100 cm

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Revenant 1, mixed media on floating panel, 60 x 60 cm
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Revenant 2, mixed media on floating panel, 60 x 60 cm

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Revenant 3, mixed media on floating panel, 60 x 60 cm
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Morena 1, mixed media on floating panel, 100 x 100 cm

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Morena 2, mixed media on floating panel, 60 x 60 cm
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Shroud 1, mixed media on floating panel, 60 x 60 cm

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Shroud 2, mixed media on floating panel, 60 x 60 cm
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