About Paul Rickard
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Awards
2022
Printmaking Prize
2019
Air Arts Award - Derby Print Open
Air Arts is the arts charity for Derby Teaching Hospitals promoting health and wellbeing through the arts and arts participation.
Air Arts was established in 2007 with the aim of create a calm and welcoming environment, providing support and reassurance for patients, staff and visitors, enhancing the environment and providing moments of reflection and distraction.
We do this by bringing art, dance, drama, poetry, storytelling, crafts and music onto the corridors, waiting areas and wards at the Royal Derby and London Road Community Hospitals, working closely with staff and patients to provide personalised creative activities, supporting relationships and improving patient and staff experience.
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Event: Aberystwyth Printmakers in the City
Dates: 18 Oct 2021 - 30 Oct 2021
Members of Aberystwyth Printmakers will be exhibiting at the RBSA gallery in Brook Street.
I will be exhibiting my prints of the Elan Valley. This is a place with an important connection to the city of Birmingham - their water flows down a 75-mile long aqueduct from the dams in this beautiful mid-Wales valley.
Event: Manchester 2020 VR
Dates: 21 Jun 2021 - 20 Jul 2021
"The most ambitious VR gallery exhibition to be mounted in 2021.
1000's upon 1000's thousands of UK and global visitors will visit the exhibition."
The Manchester VR exhibition is an advanced project that will influence the inclusion in the 4 day Central Manchester 2022 High Street exhibition for all participating artists in the VR show.
https://manchester2020.com/Quay-st-gallery.html
Event: Derby Print Open
Dates: 1 Jun 2021 - 30 Jun 2021
I am really pleased to have had five prints accepted into this year's exhibition.
I will add the link to the online exhibition once it opens but you can access my profile and images from last year's exhibition here:
https://www.derbyprintopen.org/printmakers/paul-rickard
Event: Open Art Exhibition
Dates: 13 Feb 2021 - 26 Mar 2021
ANNUAL OPEN ART EXHIBITION 2021
The Annual Open Exhibition 2021, showcases a diverse collection of works. All of the successful entries can be viewed online on http://rcaconwy.org/exhibitions/annual-open-art-exhibition-2021, with the exhibition to be staged at the RCA Gallery once government Covid guidlines allow.
Event: Tŷ Pawb Open
Dates: 3 Oct 2020 - 6 Mar 2021
An Exhibition Celebrating Lockdown Creativity.
View the exhibition online at https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=esbL6AfoTSg
This year, the theme of our Open is ‘creativity during lockdown’. The response to this theme has been inspiring, demonstrating the invention and resilience shown by artists from across Wrexham, Wales and the United Kingdom.
We received submissions from over 350 artists who were each able to provide three artworks for consideration. Three judges were then asked to select a range of works that not only fit the theme of the exhibition but also complemented each other and created a coherent display.
Together, the judges agreed on a selection of 117 artworks from 102 artists.
Biography
I am a printmaker creating original, limited edition linoleum relief prints in my studio in mid-Wales and am a member of the Aberystwyth Printmakers & Swansea Print Workshop.
A long-held interest in archaeology means that I am particularly drawn to buildings and structures in their landscape settings. I am also fascinated by the concept of liminality; by boundaries, thresholds and transitional spaces.
The starting point for a print is usually one of my own photographs. Using a variety of manual and automatic processes, together with compositional sketches, I abstract and manipulate them to achieve a working image which is then transferred to the lino ready for cutting.
I was initially attracted to linocut by its graphic feel and the technical nature of the processes involved. Whilst this technicality might seem at odds with creativity, I have found that the medium offers almost infinite scope for artistic expression. I particularly relish the intellectual, technical and artistic challenges involved in the creation of an image by the repeated transfer of layers of ink onto paper via the medium of carved linoleum. There is often an element of serendipity in the process which adds an extra element of enjoyment and discovery to the process.
