Richard

Austin

visual artist

Chelsea, Québec, Canada

Over the past five decades I’ve worked in different creative mediums: painting, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, graphics and book design. 

My oil portrait paintings created during the 1990s blended soft edges and textures, attempting to capture my subjects’ ethereal moods and dark emotions. 

In the last few years, I’ve been using acrylics to create compositions with more defined dramatic contours, focusing on abstract minimalist interpretations of still life and landscapes. 

These paintings project simplified and deconstructed natural forms using limited colour palettes. 

Often in my creative work, I try to challenge perception, perspectives and assumptions about nature and reality.

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Mountain

2024

Acrylic on gallery canvas

28”x22”

SOLD

Charlevoix

2024

Acrylic on gallery canvas

20”x20”

SOLD

2024

Northern lake

2024

Acrylic on gallery canvas

24”x20”

Northern lake

2024

Acrylic on gallery canvas

24”x20”