Richard Tratt SWLA | Society of Wildlife Artists

Chalkhill Blues
Oman Landscape 4
The Dorset Coastline at Tyneham
Wheatears on the Heath
Wood Mouse

About Richard Tratt SWLA

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Biography

Artist's Statement

Richard Tratt is always inspired by the natural world and by Britain’s lush and diverse landscape. His paintings are centered mainly on my local area of Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire. So many exciting variations occur from Chalk Downland to New Forest lowland heath and westwards to the fabulous Dorset coast.

Method of Working

Richard work in oils on canvas. He spends a lot of time outdoors researching his subjects and sometimes painting in the basis of the landscape. Most of the paintings are brought indoors for completion of finer details in the studio. Richard is usually working on five or more paintings at any one time! When doing commissioned paintings he is quite happy to work from photographs.

Biographical Details

1953 Born in Enfield, Hertfordshire

1970 - 1972 Northwich College of Art

1972 - 1974 Dartington College of Arts

1979 Became full time artist

1981 Elected to the SWLA

1986 Elected to SBA

1994 Painted two murals in Sultan of Oman’s Palace

Society Memberships

Society of Wildlife Artists

Other Society Memberships

Society of Botanical Artists

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

1996 First prize Art in Nature Competition sponsored by The Artist magazine.

Exhibitions

The Natural Eye 2016

The Natural Eye 2015

Other exhibitions

2008 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

2008 Wildlife Artist of the Year Exhibition

2008 Breamore one man exhibition

2007 New Forest Painters

2005 Nature in Art Museum – one man show

2000 Tokyo one man exhibition

1998 Tokyo one man exhibition Peter Hedley Gallery - 3 one man shows Work on permanent display at Nature in Art Museum, Gloucester

Publications

Butterfly Landscapes ISBN no. 1-904078-15-X published by Langford Press. A book of Richard Tratts paintings showing all the British butterfly species in their natural habitat.