Richard Heley is an artist, poet, songwriter, storywriter and ‘live’ performance painter. His paintings are represented in collections around the world. His second exhibition at Maida Hill Place features his giant, colourful and surreal paintings.
Richard is the 1997/8 Farrago UK Poetry Slam Champion, has a growing reputation as a spoken word performer, telling whacky, funny, surreal stories with an entertaining mix of philosophical and wild stream of consciousness poetry.
“Performance painting, poetry slam champion, interactive art with young children, song writing – such activities are not the normal profile of a committed and intensely serious-minded and hugely prolific artist, but then Richard Heley’s whole creative career has not followed any remotely conventional pattern.
“Working closely with children and writing and performing poetry, has resulted in work teeming with rich and exuberant imagery, bold, painterly touches and brilliant colour — Gauguin meets Chagall meets Sidney Nolan — with English restraint and reticence nowhere to be seen, thank goodness! ” Art critic, Nicholas Usherwood.
Richard talks a lot about the need he feels to be able to “let go” in his art, and it is his success in doing just that, which enables us to enter his imaginative world with such freedom and exhilaration.
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