Richard Heys

Art Forms
Painting
Exhibition and News
Coming up:
Exhibiting at Kata Jewellery & Art Gallery, 48c St. Johns Road, Tunbridge Wells TN4 9NY from 1st May to 30th August 2025
Exhibiting with Free Painters & Sculptors, XYZ Gallery, 5 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8PH, 9 – 19 July 2025
Find my work at Adam’s Gallery in Reigate, Clifton Fine Art in Bristol & Wilverley Gallery in Lymington, on an ongoing basis.
Biography
Richard Heys – creator of paintings with presence and colour driven
Richard is a non-figurative painter based in a light-filled studio in Sussex, an acorn’s throw from the Ashdown Forest. He paints using print-making tools, brushes and bespoke squeegees. He works to re-mould inner spaces, to invite attention to and engagement with surface and depth, with what is hidden and what is revealed.
In his work Richard is not aiming to illustrate or realise ideas, the work is its own revealing and holds a mystery for him. As Seamus Heaney wrote, we go to art to be ‘forwarded within ourselves’. This casting of himself forward enables Richard to bring a spaciousness and, at times, a sense of the numinous into his work.
Contact
If you’re not able to visit during the dates and times my studio is officially open for South East Open Studios please contact me to arrange an alternative time to visit.
Contact me at richard@richardianheys.co.uk & on 07818 624996
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