Artist: Richard Rowan
Title: Luminesence
Size: 19" x 19"
Edition Size: Artist Hand Signed and Numbered Limited Edition to 150
Medium: Giclee paper
About the Artist: HISTORY & BACKGROUND

One of my earliest memories of being an artist is when I was 6 years old painting with poster paints at the kitchen table while the family were fixed in front of the TV. Using stolen architectural (just finished) drawings of my Dads I would be filling in all the rooms in colour and drawing people stood next to the buildings. I’ve never seen my Dad so upset and angry, but he is now my biggest fan.

From a design and fine art background in Northampton I went on to win the Daily Mail’s ‘Artist of the Year’ award in 1992. After finishing my training I found an artist life very difficult to establish and a designer’s one very frustrating. So after this I found myself in the motor sport business ranging from world rally to formula one – travelling worldwide for the next 5 years. Having seen so much of the world whilst doing this it changed my whole outlook on life, but I never put down my drawing pad constantly sketching cars and scenery at any spare moment. Never feeling quite at home constantly living out of a suitcase, I would produce art pieces when back at home and sell at local galleries which then brought in commissions from various people. Leaving the race track and ‘go go’ lifestyle behind has changed everything for me.

For the last 3 years I have devoted all of my time to art on glass which is my preferred medium, using a unique style of oil painting as opposed to the more traditional canvas or board.

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF

My day starts at 7am – up and out taking my fiancée Emma to the local station for her London design job. After waving her goodbye I’m back home to start my day with a coffee and some music. In my studio today is a new piece to start which I’m rather eager about because I’ve been planning it for a few days now. I clean up some new glass and working from my sketched designs I mask out the size of the picture, making a few marks to sort my composition of the landscape. The first part of this water scene is the foreground. All the reeds and some touches of reflections in the water are first as I’m painting all this back to front with my hands under the glass painting upwards which sounds strange, and looks even stranger. This part is taking some time and is very detailed and takes up most of the morning.

A quick lunch then back to finish it. It’s all dark brown in colour which only takes a week to dry – some take a lot longer. It’s painstaking but satisfying and as this can be rather fiddly it takes up most of the day. At 3.30 I’m off out to draw a landscape I saw the other week when out seeing family. Sitting out with my drawing pad is great and I love doing this, but oils and glass don’t work well outside. After 4 drawings and a couple of photos I’m back to my favourite spot to catch the sunset burning the clouds which will look great for my next piece. I then pack up and time it well to pick up Emma from the station on my return at around 7.30pm. We discuss our day over dinner and relax in front of a movie; transporting us to another place.
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