Richard Sorrell RBA NEAC PPRWS

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Balustrade

Oil

76 x 92 cm (90 x 106 cm framed)

£2,200

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Iron Bench

Richard Sorrell RBA NEAC PPRWS

Oil

81 x 51 cm (95 x 65 cm framed)

£1,800

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Corner Table

Richard Sorrell RBA NEAC PPRWS

Oil

47 x 51 cm (59 x 63 cm framed)

£1,100

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26 November 2020

Two People Holding Hands

Richard Sorrell RBA NEAC PPRWS

Oil

36 x 40 cm (48 x 52 cm framed)

£950

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A Round Table

Richard Sorrell RBA NEAC PPRWS

Oil

76 x 90 cm (88 x 102 cm framed)

£2,200

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26 November 2020

Big Window

Richard Sorrell RBA NEAC PPRWS

Oil

110 x 208 cm (118 x 216 cm framed)

£5,000

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26 November 2020

A Crowd - A Handshake

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Acrylic

40 x 56 cm

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A Crush

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Acrylic

38 x 49 cm

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About Richard Sorrell RBA NEAC PPRWS

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Artist details

Artist's Statement

Richard Sorrell is a painter of invented figurative pictures or, put more simply: ‘People doing things’. He works in oil and acrylic paint as well as in watercolour. His career started as a predominantly landscape, portrait and still life painter – by instinct a draughtsman, and interested in the appearance of things, particularly plants and animals – an objective painter. His subjective painting – the invented compositions – was a smaller part of his work at this time, but the inventions have come to greater prominence since the 1990s.

Biographical Details

Richard Sorrell was born in 1948, the son of Alan Sorrell, the historical draughtsman and painter, and Elizabeth Sorrell, the watercolourist. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools (Post Graduate Course), having also attended Walthamstow Art School (Pre-Diploma) and Kingston College of Art (Dip AD). He was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society in 1975, served as Vice President of that society 2002 - 05, and was elected President 2006 - 09. He was an Executive Committee member of the New English Art Club 1995 - 2006 and 2009 - 10, and is also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (by whom he was awarded The de Laszlo Medal in 2002). He is a member of the Small Paintings Group, the Art Workers Guild and the Chelsea Arts Club. Richard Sorrell has also served as an Executive Committee member of the National Artists Association. He was a Governor of Mall Galleries from 2000 - 06.

Society Memberships

New English Art Club

Royal Society of British Artists

Exhibitions

Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition 2018

Other exhibitions

2010 to 2012: Petleys Gallery

2010 to Present: Fosse Gallery, Stow on the Wold

2010: Rowley Fine Art, Winchester

2009 to Present: Small Pictures Group

2009: Rainyday Gallery, Penzance

2008: Chappel Galleries, Essex

2003: Alresford Gallery

2003 and 2007: Alpha House Gallery, Sherbourne, Dorset

2003 to Present: Galleries Sternberg, Chicago

2002 to 2006: Sheen Gallery

2002 and 2003: Guildford Arts (Mill Gallery)

1997: Leamington Spa Art Gallery (with Edmund Fairfax-Lucy)

1997 to 2009: Langham Fine Art

1997 to Present: Thompson's Gallery, Stow on the Wold and Marylebone

1996: The Old Workshop Gallery, Norfolk

1996: Kentmere House Gallery, York

1996 to Present: Llewellyn Alexander Gallery

1996 to 2008: Manor House Gallery, Chipping Norton

1994 and 1996: Lynn Strover Gallery, Cambridge

1992: Cadogan Gallery

1985 to Present: Art in Action

1981 to 1993: Agnews

1980: Hayward Gallery, Lutyens Exhibition

1978: Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend on Sea

1975: DLI Museum and Art Gallery, Durham

1975 to Present: Royal Watercolour Society Exhibitions

1971 to Present: Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions