Richard Gorman
Born in Dublin in 1946, he was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Dun Laoghaire School of Art. Frequent visits to Japan have influenced his working methods and materials, instanced in a series of large-scale works on handmade washi paper, which he produced in western Japan in 1999. His oil paintings on linen typically involve clearly defined interrelated blocks of colour, creating tensions between themselves and the edge of the picture. ‘He has a distinctive colour sense, one inclined towards a muted, classical palette shot through with flashes of brightness that belong to a different tonal scale entirely…..expanses of zinging hues: lemons and acid yellows, lime greens and salmon pinks. They dance against the sombre greys and browns’ (Aidan Dunne Irish Times June 2007)